Author: Olivia Prentzel

Colorado Springs police reported using force at a disproportionate rate against Black people — at a percentage that’s about four times greater than their portion of the city’s population, according to a Gazette analysis of data from the department. Nearly a quarter of the department’s use of force reports in 2019 involved a person whom officers…

A Colorado Springs elementary school teacher was arrested Thursday after undercover detectives said he was interested in soliciting sex from children online. Joshua Silverthorn, 34, a physical education teacher at Monterey Elementary School in southeast Colorado Springs, was arrested on suspicion of internet sexual exploitation of a child after a two-month undercover police sting, police…

Woodland Park’s police chief was placed on paid administrative leave following allegations the department received about “his conduct in the workplace,” a city official said Friday. Chief Miles De Young was placed on leave Thursday and will return pending the results of the investigation, said Michael Lawson, acting city manager. The allegations are not criminal…

A candlelight vigil for the six people killed after a gunman opened fire at a birthday party in eastern Colorado Springs is scheduled for Thursday. Organization Mothers of Murdered Youth will hold the event from 6 to 8 p.m. at the entrance Canterbury Mobile Home Park, 3020 S. Powers Blvd, Jennifer Romero, the organization’s founder,…

Colorado Healing Fund is accepting donations to support the six people killed in Colorado Springs after a 28-year-old gunman opened fire at a birthday party on Mother’s Day. Donations will be distributed through the fund’s community partners to victims, including the Colorado Organizations of Victim Assistance, according to the nonprofit’s website. “This is the second…

A 28-year-old man — upset he was not invited — showed up to a family birthday party and started shooting, killing his girlfriend and five of her family members Sunday in eastern Colorado Springs, according to police.  Teodoro Macias, of Colorado Springs, shot six people “in a quick succession” inside a mobile home in eastern Colorado Springs before turning the gun on himself shortly…

A shooting that killed seven people at a birthday party in Colorado Springs on Sunday appeared to be the result of domestic violence, according to Mayor John Suthers, highlighting a dark trend in the Pikes Peak region. “We know that this is not a domestic terrorism incident, not an ideologically-driven crime,” Suthers told Gazette news…

A gunman killed six members of an extended family Sunday at a birthday party at a mobile home in Colorado Springs before turning the gun on himself, police said, in what appears to be the fourth deadliest mass shooting in state history, tied for the deadliest mass murder in the city’s history. The killings happened…

A mother of a Colorado Springs woman was stabbed 16 times, her arm becoming nearly severed, before she died while trying to protect her daughter from her estranged husband in her townhome in the northeast side of the city, police testified Friday in 4th Judicial District Court. Timothy Ray Scott, Jr., 28, faces two counts…