Author: SADIE GURMAN , Associated Press
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Justice Department proposes banning rapid-fire bump stocks
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Saturday it has taken the first step in the regulatory process to ban bump stocks, likely setting the stage for long legal battles with gun manufacturers while the trigger devices remain on the market. The move was expected after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to work toward…
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Colorado pair who died fighting Islamic State come home
DENVER — U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter presented flags Friday to the families of two men who never joined the U.S. military — but died fighting the Islamic State group in Syria — after their bodies returned to Colorado on Friday. The caskets of Levi Shirley, 24, Jordan MacTaggart, 22, along with that of William Savage,…
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Colorado verdict likely deters strict security at the movies
CENTENNIAL — A verdict saying a Colorado movie theater could not have safeguarded against a shooting that left 12 people dead likely prevented a major shift in how people go to the movies by keeping the onus on the killer, rather than the public venue he chose to attack. Six jurors concluded Thursday that Cinemark…
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Colorado theater trial could prompt tight security at movies
CENTENNIAL — Industry experts say that if a jury finds a Colorado theater at fault in the 2012 shooting rampage that left 12 moviegoers dead, theaters across the U.S. could be forced to adopt costly security measures. And that could mean higher ticket prices. In a civil trial now underway, a jury is being asked…
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Theater shooting victims can’t cite federal security memo
CENTENNIAL — Victims of a deadly shooting at a Colorado movie theater can’t show jurors a federal security memo, dated months before the attack, warning theaters that they could be targeted by international terrorists, a judge ruled Monday. That dealt a blow to the case against Cinemark, which victims argue should be held accountable for…
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Aurora theater’s security at issue in civil trial
DENVER — Nine months after the Colorado theater shooter was sentenced to life in prison, some victims are returning to the same courtroom in hopes of holding the suburban Denver movie theater accountable for not doing more to prevent his bloody rampage. They say Century Theaters should have had armed guards at the packed opening…
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Teen killed by Denver police previously cited for resisting arrest
DENVER — A 17-year-old girl who was shot to death by Denver police while driving a stolen car was accused in a separate incident of eluding a police officer and resisting arrest just three weeks before her death, court records obtained Friday show. State troopers cited Jessica Hernandez on Jan. 1 for speeding down a…
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Colorado officer who carried dying girl comforts grieving father
EVERGREEN — Every year on his daughter’s birthday, Ian Sullivan visits the grave of the child he lost when a gunman slipped into a Colorado movie theater and fatally shot the 6-year-old as she sat with mother in the fourth row. And every year, he finds a birthday card on the headstone from the man…
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Hash oil explosions rise in Colorado with legalized marijuana
DENVER — The opening months of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug’s intoxicating oil in crude home-based laboratories. Since Jan. 1, when sales began, the state’s only certified adult burn center has treated 10 people with serious injuries they…