Tag: coroner
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Federal judge dismisses claim of falsified testimony against El Paso County coroner employee
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from a man who was tried and acquitted of his girlfriend’s 2021 murder, and who subsequently accused a witness of fabricating evidence to make him seem guilty. Joseph Hunnicutt stood trial twice in El Paso County for the killing of Alison Cantrell. At the first trial in…
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El Paso County appoints new coroner
El Paso County has appointed a forensic pathologist to replace resigning coroner Dr. Leon Kelly to serve out the remainder of his term. A 12-year veteran of the El Paso County Coroner’s Office, Dr. Emily Russell-Kinsley is currently the deputy chief medical examiner. She earned a medical degree from Baylor, has medical examiner specialty training…
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Appeals court rejects notion that coroners’ conclusions preempt other evidence of murder
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that an “undetermined” cause of death from a county coroner does not preclude prosecutors from presenting their own evidence that the death was actually a homicide. In the case before the Court of Appeals, Denver jurors convicted Robert W. Feldman in 2022 of murdering his wife, Stacy Feldman. He is…
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Well-known El Paso County coroner announces he’ll be stepping down
Most of the boxes for the possible scenarios and a few surprises of what a forensic pathologist could encounter on the job have been checked off for El Paso County Coroner and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Leon Kelly. “When you think of all the things that have happened over the last decade, there wasn’t a…
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Well-known El Paso County coroner announces he’ll be stepping down
Most of the boxes for the possible scenarios and a few surprises of what a forensic pathologist could encounter on the job have been checked off for El Paso County Coroner and Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Leon Kelly. “When you think of all the things that have happened over the last decade, there wasn’t a…
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Colorado Springs motorcyclist who died while attempting stunts identified
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The motorcyclist who died while attempting stunts in a north Colorado Springs parking lot on Saturday has been identified by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office. Charles Velasquez, 31, died in the single-vehicle crash in the parking lot of Floor and Décor, at 6867 Crest Hill…
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Colorado Springs motorcyclist who died while attempting stunts identified
The motorcyclist who died while attempting stunts in a north Colorado Springs parking lot on Saturday has been identified by the El Paso County Coroner’s Office. Charles Velasquez, 31, died in the single-vehicle crash in the parking lot of Floor and Décor, at 6867 Crest Hill View, near Woodmen Road and Interstate 25, according to a…
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Unidentified body remains buried, frustration grows over CBI investigation into coroner
Despite weeks of investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, one woman in Trinidad is frustrated that an unidentified person discovered buried by the county coroner has not yet been identified. She fears it could be the body of her missing father. Gazette media partner KOAA has reported for months about the Las Animas County…
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A litany of death: A list of homeless deaths in El Paso County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An SUV struck Dirk Cordtz, a pedestrian, on South Nevada Avenue at East Las Vegas Street in Colorado Springs on Jan. 2, 2018. Cordtz died a day later. The Gazette File 2018: January Dirk Cordtz, 62 Homeless off and on the past couple of years,…
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A litany of death: A list of homeless deaths in El Paso County
–> 2018: January Dirk Cordtz, 62 Homeless off and on the past couple of years, he cut across Nevada Avenue a couple of blocks from the Springs Rescue Mission shelter where he had been staying. An SUV turning left pinned him to the ground. He died Jan. 3 at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central. A former…