Author: Zachary Dupont zachary.dupont@gazettedev.gazette.com

The case for the woman accused of starting the Highland Lakes fire last year was placed on a mental health stay Monday because of concerns about her competency. Lowa Tillitt, 77, also referred to as Lacey Tillitt in public records, was arrested Jan. 16 for allegedly starting the Highland Lakes fire Oct. 28. Tillitt faces…

The man accused of fatally stabbing someone outside the Springs Rescue Mission last year was found competent to proceed by an El Paso County judge on Friday despite reported “delusions” about his criminal case. Rocky West, 33, is facing a single first-degree murder charge for allegedly killing Isaiah Curtis Plair, 25, at the Springs Rescue…

The man accused of killing 56-year-old Patrick Hunt in 2023 was sentenced to 40 years in prison, according to court records. Adrian Smith, 40, was arrested in November 2023, on homicide charges for shooting and killing Hunt on Oct. 7 at a home just east of downtown Colorado Springs. According to an arrest affidavit for…

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal case of Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the man who allegedly shot and killed three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015. According to court records, a petition for a writ of certiorari to have Dear’s appeal case heard in the U.S. Supreme Court was…

A Colorado Springs man was found guilty of multiple charges, including vehicular homicide, at trial on Wednesday for killing a parole officer with his car in 2023. Justin Kula, 42, was accused of killing Pueblo parole officer Christine Guerin Sandoval with his car after he attempted to flee from her and two other parole officers who were attempting to…

Miguel Romero was a 17-year-old full of life. A lover of music, skating and most of all — his friends, Romero was a “ball of light” in every room he walked into, his mother Erica Romero-Newell, 42, remembers. “He was goofy, silly, funny and always willing to help others,” Romero-Newell said of her son. On…

A potential appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to delay the state-level case against Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the man who allegedly shot and killed three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015. Attorneys appeared in district court on Thursday with the same news for the court that has been given for the…

The case for the former deputy district attorney and Colorado Springs Mormon church leader accused of sexual assault on a child remains “status quo,” his defense attorney said at a court hearing Wednesday. David McConkie, 45, a former president of the East Stake within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, appeared in court virtually…