1st shooting...12:30 a.m. missionary school, Arvada. 20-ish man in black goes in and starts shooting. 2 young people dead. some injured. guy gets away.
2nd shooting: 70 miles south and 12 hours later. At New Life megachurch in Co. Springs. Perp plants bombs around...said seen throwing objects out of car up against buildings. He gets out and starts shooting in p[arking lot. Female volunteer security guard shoots and kills him. But he has already killed one, and seriously wounded 4 others. He fits vague description of perp in Avada. Cops are comparing notes.
Church under lockdown and bomb squad is doing its thing now.
THANKS for the added details.
Thanks very much for that summary. Much more information than I found net surfing.
FR is the place to be when seeking the true facts about the items in the news - thanks for your report.
I read an AP account, a Reuters account, and a local Col Springs TV account - but none of them said anything about the perp planting bombs around or throwing objects out of the car up against buildings.
And none of those accounts identified the security guard as either “female” or a “volunteer”. They did say that the New Life church had “beefed up security” after the news of the earlier shooting. Thank GOD for this female volunteer security guard and that she was well trained and a deadly shot!
All the reports say the police will say the shootings are “probably related” but nothing more.
Will be glad to find out if they were done by the same perp and more about the bombs or whatever items were put up against the buildings.
IF we will ever hear the truth about those facts.
This is Colorado Springs after all.
Thanks again.
"Arvada Police Chief Don Wick said the suspect spent several minutes speaking with people inside the dorm.
Peter Warren, director of Youth With a Mission Denver, said the man asked whether he could spend the night.
When told he couldn't stay, the man opened fire, then left on foot, Warren said.
Warren said he didn't know whether any of the students or staff knew the gunman.
"We don't know why" he came to the dormitory, Warren said.
Witnesses told police that the gunman was a 20-year-old white male, wearing a dark jacket and skull cap, who left on foot.
He may have glasses or a beard.
Police with dogs searched the area through the night, and residents of nearby homes were notified by reverse 911 to be on the lookout.
Medina said residents were asked to look out their windows for any tracks left in the snow during the night.
About 4 inches of snow had fallen in the area in the past day."
Are there still people inside? Do they think there is further threat? I have no TV, so I am so in the dark on this.