Tag: Thornton
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Shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 injured in Thornton
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Thornton police are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another in the hospital on Sunday night. The shooting took place in the 3000 block of East 152nd Place, located in the northern part of the city, according to a Thornton Police Department…
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17th Judicial District Attorney finds Thornton officer justified in October shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Seventeenth Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason found a Thornton police officer justified in the October fatal shooting of a man involved in a standoff with police. Thornton Police Department Ofc. Robert Smedley shot and killed William Skells at the end of a prolonged shootout that…
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144th Avenue reopens following crash that killed a motorcycle driver
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A section of East 144th Avenue has reopened in all directions between Washington and Franklin streets following a fatal crash that occurred Friday morning. The road closed for an approximately three-hour investigation, and reopened around 11:30 a.m. according to the Thornton Police Department. Closed section…
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Man charged with first-degree murder for Thornton house party shooting
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office filed a first degree murder charge against a man in connection with a fatal shooting in Thornton on Sunday. Daniel Ramirez-Ayala, 20, was charged with first-degree murder after a shooting at a house party in the 7000 block of…
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Thornton to open new transit hub next fall, connecting northern Front Range
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Department of Transportation broke ground last week on a new mobility hub along the Interstate 25 corridor in Thornton that will give people in northern Colorado additional transit options, according to a news release. Thornton will host the new hub, which is the…
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Teen driver killed, six hospitalized after failed stop in Thornton
A teen driver was killed and six people were sent to the hospital after a crash invlolving multiple vehicles in Thornton Wednesday evening. Initial information indicates that the driver of the vehicle was a 17-year-old male who was speeding on eastbound 104th Avenue and did not yield to an officer’s lights and sirens, according to…
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Thornton youth pastor arrested, charged with sex assault on a child
Joshua Lucero, 28, a youth pastor at Word Alive Church, supervised children aged 13 to 18. Police said the incidents happened between July 2017 and July 2020.
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Thornton man sentenced after attempting to kidnap girl at school
Diego James Gettler, 30, was sentenced on Feb. 27.
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Thornton shooting, arson being investigated as double homicide
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Two days after the Thornton Police Department found two people dead inside of a house after a fire, the incident is being investigated as a double homicide. “On Feb. 28, continuing investigative efforts in this case have revealed information that confirms this case is a double homicide,” the police department said in a social media…
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Colorado family jewelry store business hit by thieves for the second time this year
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A Colorado family’s jewelry business was targeted by thieves for the second time this year. Just months after armed robbers stole merchandise worth millions from the Joyeria El Ruby store in northwest Denver, burglars ransacked the business’ second location in Thornton. Security camera footage shows masked burglars using crowbars to break in through the front…