Tag: East Colfax
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Denver police investigating body found in East Colfax apartment as homicide
A death investigation in the city’s East Colfax neighborhood has been upgraded to a homicide investigation, Denver police announced Friday afternoon. Police initially announced a death investigation opened on Thursday after a body was found inside an apartment unit in the 1400 block of North Yosemite Street, said Jay Casillas, a spokesman for the department.…
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Committee OKs $19 million for new affordable apartment complex in East Colfax neighborhood
The Denver City Council will consider a $19-million funding plan for a new affordable apartment complex in East Colfax after the housing committee approved the plan Wednesday. The complex, called the Rose on Colfax, would consist of 82 apartments reserved for tenants who make 70% or below the area median income. That would be an…
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One hospitalized in East Colfax stabbing; suspect at-large
The Denver Police Department is investigating after a person was stabbed early Thursday morning in the East Colfax neighborhood. Police said the stabbing happened in the 1100 block of Rosemary Street, near Denison Park. Police announced the incident just after 4 a.m. One victim was taken to a hospital. Police said their injuries appear to…
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One wounded in Aurora East Colfax shooting; third shooting in weekend
The Aurora Police Department is investigating after a late-night shooting Saturday on East Colfax Avenue left one victim hospitalized. Police said the shooting happened at 9:22 p.m. at 1905 Blackhawk St., in the Shadow Tree Apartments across the street from the Anschutz Medical Campus. After the shooting, the victim, a man, took himself to a…
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Denver passes $15 million project to turn former East Colfax strip club into affordable housing
The Denver City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday night allocating $15 million for the development of a new affordable housing project in the East Colfax neighborhood. The project will construct an 82-unit affordable multifamily apartment complex at 8315 E. Colfax Ave., the former site of the neighborhood’s last strip club PT’s All Nude II,…
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Denver police search for suspect in East Colfax shooting
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One killed in late-night shooting in East Colfax neighborhood
One person was killed late Wednesday night in a shooting in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood, the Denver Police Department announced. Police said the shooting happened at a home in the 1700 block of Ulster Street, blocks from William H McNichols Park and Ashley Elementary School. The victim, a man, was pronounced dead at the scene.…
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Two wounded overnight in separate Denver shootings
The Denver Police Department is investigating after separate shootings left two wounded overnight in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch and East Colfax neighborhoods. The first shooting happened just before 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the 4700 block of Odessa Street, a neighborhood near the intersection of Green Valley Ranch Boulevard and Piccadilly Road. The victim was transported…
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Denver police search for cane-using woman wanted for aggravated robbery
The Denver Police Department is asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect wanted for an aggravated robbery last month in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood. The suspect robbed a 7-Eleven at 8755 E. Montview Blvd. just after 6 a.m. on Nov. 9, police said. The 7-Eleven is only blocks away from the Denver Police…
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East Colfax forms eviction watch to prevent neighborhood displacement
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The East Colfax Neighborhood Association formed a Neighborhood Evictions Watch to protect community members from being displaced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the group announced last week. “Any eviction is inhumane,” the ECNA website reads. “We believe that we as a neighborhood can come together to…