Injured Denver victims face accused teen LoDo shooter in courtroom
Three young shooting victims, one using a cane and another pushing a walker, slowly made their way out of a Denver courtroom Tuesday after coming face-to-face with their alleged shooter.
One of the victims, who would only identify herself as “Telsey,” said that Keanna Rosenburgh, the 17-year-old accused of shooting her in the leg during what was supposed to be a fun evening out, did not return her gaze during the court proceeding. That was okay, she shrugged, because she got what she came for.
“I just wanted to let her know how I felt,” she said.
Rosenburgh appeared in a green jumpsuit for her advisement, which was closed to the press due to the fact that she is being charged as a juvenile for now. She faces 28 criminal counts, including seven counts of attempted murder and 15 counts of assault, in connection with the shooting incident Sept. 16 in the 1900 block of Market Street.
Denver police said that there were five people injured in the shooting. One of the victims was a young woman who told The Denver Gazette that her femoral artery was hit and she could have died but for the actions of first responders who applied a tourniquet to her leg. The woman, who asked not to be identified, said she almost lost her leg.
Rosenburgh, upset at being turned away from the entrance of Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, left the entrance to the bar, returned with a handgun and started shooting into a crowd on the sidewalk, according to Denver police investigators. She has been on the run since the shooting and was arrested in Barstow, California Oct. 19.
The Lakewood teen was extradited to Denver this weekend. There is no word about whether her family will be charged in relation to the shooting.
Her mother, Kelsey Rosenburgh, was at the hearing and had no comment for a reporter.
Another victim who asked not to be identified said that she did not know Rosenburgh before she was shot in leg. The 22-year-old was so traumatized by the incident, Tuesday’s advisement hearing was the first time she had gone anywhere since Sept. 16 when bullets started flying at 11:20 pm. The victim said that the bullet that grazed her leg caused her to lose flesh and receive 24 stitches.
The woman, who works as the director of a child care center, described a chaotic scene that night a month-and-a-half ago, when she was part of a crowd waiting to get into Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row.
“We were waiting in line and I heard the gunshots. They kept going off,” she said as she left Denver’s Lindsey-Flannigan courthouse. “I saw flashes of light, but I never saw her.”
The woman called her brother from the ambulance. He was with her at Rosenburgh’s first court appearance. Her brother said that the courtroom was tense as “emotions were in limbo.”
Rosenburgh’s next hearing is Friday at 1 p.m. in Denver District Court.
Even though the accused shooter was in handcuffs and is behind bars, not all of the victims are at ease: “I still don’t feel safe,” said one.
Said the unnamed victim: “I felt like seeing her in court, she had no remorse for the people whose lives were forever changed.”






