Tag: Leon Kelly
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Rocked by deadly pandemic, Colorado public health faces needed rebuild
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado public health officials vaulted to prominence three years ago when residents started to sicken and die of COVID-19, kicking off a pandemic that would spark fierce, even violent political debate and offer clear lessons for the future. At the outset, the outpouring of response…
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Colorado coroner’s love of scary movies, childhood prepared him for career
On his way to the morgue, Dr. Leon Kelly changes his shoes. He switches out his regular walking shoes for a pair of skull-decorated Crocs. They’re old and spattered with all the stuff you might associate with the kind of work he does. “They’re covered with 15 years of blood, bodily fluids, brains and probably…
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10,000 deaths: Colorado’s grievous losses have devolved into an unwinnable argument
The week after Thanksgiving, Dr. Joseph Forrester stood by the bedside of a man who’d been in the intensive care unit at the Medical Center of Aurora for two months. The patient was in his 70s, and COVID-19 had so ravaged his body that a ventilator breathed for him. Standing next to Forrester was the…
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10,000 deaths: Colorado’s grievous losses have devolved into an unwinnable argument
The week after Thanksgiving, Dr. Joseph Forrester stood by the bedside of a man who’d been in the intensive care unit at the Medical Center of Aurora for two months. The patient was in his 70s, and COVID-19 had so ravaged his body that a ventilator breathed for him. Standing next to Forrester was the…
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Aurora police say Hinkley High School shooting had gang ties
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Aurora police believe a shooting in the Hinkley High School parking lot on Friday had ties to a local gang. “There was a gang nexus to the Hinkley shooting,” Matt Longshore, a spokesman for the Aurora Police Department, said in an email Tuesday. Police declined to identify the gang connected to the shooting that left…