Law enforcement at the preliminary hearing for accused University of Colorado Colorado Springs shooter Nicholas Jordan on Tuesday outlined the overwhelming amount of evidence that led to Jordan being bound over on all charges by an El Paso County judge.

Jordan, 25, is accused of shooting and killing Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, and UCCS student Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, in the early morning hours of Feb. 16 in a campus dormitory.

Jordan and Knopp were roommates and students at UCCS. Jordan’s arrest affidavit states that he had made a death threat against Knopp and that campus security and housing staff recorded multiple complaints about Jordan before the shooting.

Three witnesses testified in Jordan’s preliminary hearing, with the bulk of the time taken by a pair of Colorado Springs police detectives who outlined the extensive disputes between Jordan and his roommates leading up to the shooting, and the evidence that pointed police to Jordan as the suspect.

Detective Mark Kerr testified that he interviewed the roommate of Jordan’s who was not shot but present at the dorm the morning of the shooting. Kerr testified that the roommate, Knopp and Jordan had extensive issues that led to both of Jordan’s roommates attempting to move out.

Jordan, Knopp and the roommate lived at the Crestone House, a dormitory in the Alpine Village community on UCCS campus. The dorm room where the deaths occurred was in a pod arrangement, with four individual bedrooms with locking doors, organized around a common area. The fourth room at the pod was vacant, Kerr testified.

Jordan and Knopp’s roommate informed Kerr, according to his testimony, that on the morning of Feb. 16 he woke up to a series of loud bangs he identified as gunshots and called police. On cross-examination, Jordan’s attorney, Nick Rogers, confirmed with Kerr that the roommate only heard gunshots but did not see Jordan that morning.

Detective Ed Crofoot later testified that Jordan was the only person who entered Crestone’s eastern entrance between midnight and 9 a.m. on Feb. 16, doing so twice. One of those instances occurred less than 20 minutes before police responded to gunfire.

Kerr testified that Knopp and his roommate were looking to move out of the dorm on the day of the shooting because of an argument weeks earlier, when Jordan allegedly threatened to kill Knopp over a dispute about taking out the trash.

“Your actions will have consequences,” Jordan allegedly said to Knopp one day when Knopp told Jordan he was going to file a report to UCCS housing, according to Kerr’s testimony.

During Crofoot’s testimony, prosecutor Andrew Vaughan attempted to have Crofoot testify that Jordan had a previous incident at a UCCS housing facility before moving to Crestone. Vaughan said Jordan allegedly was evicted from the apartment due to complaints from neighbors, and that Jordan attempted to “hunt them down” after the eviction.

Rogers objected to any testimony about this alleged incident, which was sustained by Judge David Shakes.

Crofoot testified that law enforcement determined one of the two guns recovered in Jordan’s car during his arrest fired the 11 shell cartridges found at the scene of the homicide. Crofoot also testified that, during Jordan’s four-hour interview after his arrest, he first denied ever being at the dorm during the semester, but later after being presented with evidence of him entering Crestone, changed his story to say he went to the dorm that morning to use the bathroom in the lobby.

On cross-examination, Crofoot stated that at no point did Jordan admit to shooting either Montgomery or Knopp, and that there are no eyewitnesses of Jordan entering the dorm room.

One thing that remains unclear to detectives is the relationship between Montgomery and Knopp, and why she was at the dorm on Feb. 16. Crofoot testified that analysis of all parties’ cellphones is “ongoing.”

A fourth witness, Sheriff’s Deputy Taylor Smith, briefly testified about Jordan’s second case, in which he is accused of assaulting a deputy at the El Paso County jail in a dispute over cleaning supplies.

At the end of the nearly four-hour hearing, Rogers argued that the court could not bind Jordan over the charges of first-degree murder due to a lack of evidence of deliberation and intent. Vaughan disagreed, and said the prosecution entered numerous pieces of evidence showing deliberation and intent, including Jordan’s threat to kill Knopp, keycard entries from Jordan the morning of the shooting, and the testimony of Crofoot that Jordan had emailed UCCS to attempt to drop out of his classes 14 hours before the shooting.

Shakes ruled that Jordan would be bound over on both charges of first-degree murder, the single menacing charge, all three violent crime sentence enhancers, as well as all charges related to Jordan’s alleged assault of a deputy.

Jordan will return to court on Oct. 25 for an arraignment hearing, which will be the first time he has a chance to enter a plea in either case.

Since his arrest, Jordan’s case has stalled because of ongoing competency issues.

In April, Shakes announced that the first competency evaluation, performed by the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, found Jordan incompetent to proceed. The prosecution then requested a second evaluation by an expert unaffiliated with CMHIP. The second evaluation found Jordan competent, leading to a competency hearing.

In August, Shakes held a competency hearing in which he ruled Jordan competent to proceed.

Jordan remains in custody at the El Paso County jail on a $5 million bond and appeared to court on Tuesday in an orange jumpsuit, sitting at the defense table for the entirety of the preliminary hearing.