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• Family describes murder victim as loveable and caring Play Video

  February 20, 2013 12:20 AM

  COLORADO SPRINGS - The family a Cincinnati soldier whose body was at a Colorado Springs hotel room Sunday morning describe their sister and daughter as a very warm and caring individual. Sgt. Kimberly Walker, 28, part of a refueling company attached to the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division at... more »

• Suspect charged in unsolved murder case

  September 21, 2012 12:54 AM

  Police may be closing the books on a gruesome murder left unsolved since April, when a man was found shot to death in a blood-soaked S-U-V. Investigators found no motive and no suspects until now. Carlos Ford was charged with first-degree murder on Thursday for the killing of 28-year-old... more »

• Two wanted for attempted 1st degree murder

  August 17, 2012 7:30 PM

  Colorado Springs police are asking for your help in locating two people wanted for attempted first degree murder. Police say Timothy Key a.k.a "psych" and Montinique Dejon a.k.a "T YACC" shot at a man on the 4000 block of Airport Road around 3 p.m. today. Officers say there... more »

• Colorado Springs hacking death trial delayed

  June 16, 2012 3:01 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The trial of a teenager charged in the slaying of a man who authorities say was hacked to death by either a hatchet or machete in Colorado Springs has been postponed while defense attorneys mull a possible insanity plea. Our partners at the Gazette say... more »

• Police arrest shooting suspect, Golden Cue's violent history remains Play Video

  June 3, 2012 12:27 AM

  Dwight Gordon Jr. is charged with murder after allegedly gunning down a Fort Carson soldier and injuring a woman in a shooting at the Golden Cue bar in Colorado Springs early Saturday morning. Though the suspect is in custody, this type of activity has grown all too familiar at... more »

• Father believed murdered daughter could have been saved Play Video

  January 30, 2012 3:51 PM

  The father of a young girl who was beat to death and had her body buried in the crawl space of a Monument home pleaded guilty on Monday to a single charge of child abuse resulting in death. In exchange for his plea, three other charges against 31 year old... more »

• 3 to be tried in Mexico for Colorado slaying

  August 17, 2011 8:20 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Mexican authorities arrested three men suspected in a 2006 slaying outside a Colorado bar. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers' office said Wednesday that the men are Mexican nationals and will be prosecuted in their country. They are suspects in the shooting death of Marco Vargas-Salvador, who was... more »

• Teen convicted of manslaughter, father speaks out

  June 11, 2011 12:28 AM

  The family of 19-year-old Logan McClelland has mixed emotions after hearing he was found guilty Friday in El Paso County court of reckless manslaughter, instead of the first-degree murder charge he was facing. "Of course we were hoping for no conviction, but we live with the consequences of our... more »

• New charges in child abuse case, now First Degree Murder

  February 20, 2011 3:14 PM

  A two-month old infant may be the victim of a homicide. Colorado Springs Police have charged the babysitter with the boy's death. George Peters faces First Degree Murder charges in the boy's death. Police originally charged the 23-year-old man with child abuse charges, after the infant was rushed to... more »

• Victim's father reacts to guilty murder verdict

  February 4, 2011 12:46 AM

  A local family feels justice has been served after a Fort Carson soldier was convicted Thursday for murdering their daughter. 23-year-old Robert Marko was convicted of first-degree murder and four other sexual assault related charges in the 2008 death of a 19-year-old girl, Judilianna Lawrence. It was the... more »

• Life sentence in murder over an Xbox case

  July 16, 2010 3:37 PM

  A Colorado Springs teenager was sentenced to two life sentences plus an additional 32 years after being found guilty of first degree murder and aggravated robbery in the death of a mentally handicapped man. Kyle Sebastian Stott, 19, was convicted of two charges of first degree murder, aggravated robbery... more »

• 2 charged in shooting death due in court this week

  July 5, 2010 10:33 AM

  Two people charged in a man's shooting death at an Aurora motel last year are due in court to enter pleas. Twenty-seven-year-old Riley William Godfrey and 20-year-old Darrius Dayvon Turner are scheduled to enter pleas Wednesday on charges that include first-degree murder, burglary and kidnapping. Another suspect in... more »

• Thornton woman dead, police arrest husband

  July 5, 2010 10:26 AM

  Thornton police say a woman found dead in a house fire had been shot multiple times and her husband is a suspect in the case. Thornton police spokesman Matt Barnes says firefighters found the body of 30-year-old Belinda Fisher after extinguishing the fire Saturday evening. Authorities say the fire... more »

• Motive suggested in father son stabbing case

  May 14, 2010 4:11 PM

  Court documents unsealed today in the case of a Colorado Springs man charged with murdering his father suggest he may have been abused by the victim. Jason Lee Stroud, 32, was formally charged today with first degree murder.  His father, Terry Stroud, 59, was repeatedly stabbed in the face... more »

• Son held without bond in stabbing death of father

  May 4, 2010 4:45 PM

  A Colorado Springs man accused in the stabbing death of his father made his first court appearance via video from the county jail Tuesday afternoon. Jason Lee Stroud, 32, is being without bond at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center. He was advised that he could be charged... more »

• Mom accused in preschooler's death surrenders

  April 2, 2010 2:04 PM

  A mom accused of murdering her 3-year-old son is in jail. Michelle Dosdall turned herself in to the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center Friday morning. She's charged with First Degree Murder and Child Abuse Resulting in Death. Dosdall is being held without bond. According to El Paso County... more »

• Woman sentenced for Security murder

  December 4, 2009 9:08 AM

  A judge has sentenced a woman from Security to life in prison without parole in the fatal shooting of her sister's boyfriend. Denise Lynne Presson, 29, was sentenced after a jury convicted her Thursday of menacing and of first-degree murder in the shooting of Victor San Miguel, 28, on Dec.... more »

• Guilty! Verdicts reached in garage sale sign murders

  November 18, 2009 6:32 PM

  Jomar Falu-Vives was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder Wednesday in the shocking deaths of two young people gunned down while posting garage sale signs in Colorado Springs. Jurors returned the verdicts late Wednesday afternoon. Falu-Vives was a Fort Carson soldier and Iraq War veteran when... more »