Crime and Public Safety

A toddler in northern Colorado died after falling into a ditch near Fort Collins, marking the second child death on a Front Range waterway Tuesday.

Gretchen Ryan, a Colorado mother, is charged with murder in the death of her 16-year-old daughter after investigators say the woman encouraged the teen’s alcoholism and failed to seek help even when her health plummeted to the point she had trouble walking before her March death.

A pro-Palestinian student group in Boulder said that the Pearl Street firebombing was justified, and called for the man who pleaded guilty to murdering an 82-year-old woman to be freed.

The 4-year-old boy who fell into the St. Vrain Creek southwest of Lyons on Tuesday died after drifting about 1.5 miles from where officials think he fell.

Pueblo officers shot the man in the 800 block of East Fifth Street shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday, after the man fired twice at law enforcement.

Matthew Omara stabbed Taylor Trevino and Christina Hardin in the 10100 block of East Harvard Avenue in December 2022, Denver police said.

An Adams County jury convicted Josh Lucero, a youth pastor at Word Alive church in Thornton, of child sex assault on Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice wants to join a local lawsuit challenging a 2021 Colorado law that sought to streamline the process for crime victims who are not U.S. citizens to apply for legal status within the country.

Aurora City Councilman Rob Andrews pleaded guilty to DUI in Arapahoe County District Court on Tuesday and was sentenced to home confinement.