The man was in a group of four skiers who left the resort at the Peak 6 backcountry access point just before noon, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

The group was planning to ski the K Chute of the Sky Chutes, which are steep avalanche paths on the west side of the Tenmile Range.

After the man triggered the avalanche, he was swept down the path for about 1,100 feet and lost his skis, according to an accident report from the CAIC.

He was able to escape the still-moving debris field as the avalanche slowed down and was helped off the mountain by the other skiers, one of whom skied down the mountain, found an extra pair of skis and hiked back up so the injured man could ski down.

He was treated for unspecified injuries at St. Anthony Summit Hospital in Frisco.

Two other groups came across the avalanche later that day and called 911 after finding the man’s skis as they descended.

Six other people have been caught in Colorado avalanches so far this month, including two climbers at St. Mary’s Glacier, but none reported injuries, according to the avalanche center.

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Bystanders called 911 about 10:23 a.m. after finding the man “in medical distress,” Manitou Springs officials said in a news release. He was approximately 150-200 steps up the Incline, spokesperson Cassandra Hessel said.

People on scene started CPR, but the man was unresponsive when emergency crews arrived. He was later pronounced dead.

The man’s cause of death is under investigation, city officials said.

The Incline is a famously challenging hike with more than 2,000 feet of elevation gain in less than a mile. It draws an estimated 250,000 hikers every year, according to the city.

“City officials remind all climbers, especially those traveling from out of state, to thoroughly assess their physical condition, understand the difficulty of the climb and come properly prepared,” Manitou Springs officials said in a statement.

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Southbound Federal Boulevard was closed at 14th Avenue for the crash investigation, the agency said on social media at 12:35 p.m.

Denver Fire Department crews extricated one person who was pinned in the crash, officials said.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Jasmine Rivas-Hernandez was found shot in an alley in the 1500 block of Quebec Street on March 26, 2022. Robert Adam Solano, 36; Joseph Thomas Chavez, 28; and Shiloh Virginia Fresquez, 23, were arrested in connection with her death in January 2023.

Solano was the last suspect in the case to plead guilty, court records show. He was set to go to trial on charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse at the end of April but on March 24 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 30 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections.

He already is serving a 46-year prison sentence at the Limon Correctional Facility after he was convicted of second-degree murder in the July 2022 shooting death of 27-year-old Ramon Castro Contreras at a Lakewood car wash, according to 9News and state records.

Chavez was charged with being an accessory to a crime and abuse of a corpse in Rivas-Hernandez’s death and pleaded guilty to one felony count of being an accessory in November 2023. He was sentenced to four years in prison.

Fresquez was charged with being an accessory to a crime and pleaded guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, in June 2023. She was sentenced to five years in community corrections but is now in prison after violating the terms of her sentence, according to the district attorney’s office.

In a statement, Denver District Attorney John Walsh described Rivas-Hernandez’s death as a terrible, senseless tragedy.

“We hope that the conclusion of these cases gives Jasmine’s family and friends some a measure of comfort that justice has been served,” Walsh said.

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At about 5:30 p.m. Monday, Larimer County sheriff’s deputies pulled over a man near Rocky Mountain Avenue and U.S. 34 in Loveland, according to a news release from the office.

The man fled, starting a car chase that continued onto southbound I-25 until he blew a tire and was forced to come to a stop, sheriff’s officials said.

Sheriff’s officials said the man got out of his car on I-25 with a gun and ran across the interstate. When he jumped over the center median of the highway, he was hit by northbound traffic.

Northbound and southbound I-25 were closed near exit 245 for Mead and Colorado 66 for three and a half hours Monday night, according to the release.

The closure started just after 5:45 p.m. and ended at about 9:15 p.m., according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The pedestrian was taken to the hospital, and no update on his condition was available Tuesday.

“The suspect displayed a complete disregard for the safety of others on the highway, driving recklessly and refusing to comply with law enforcement,” Larimer County Undersheriff Joe Shellhammer said in the release.

This is a developing story and may be updated. 

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Christopher Campos-Anguiano was arrested on suspicion of five counts of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault after police say he opened fire on a vehicle in the 15800 block of East 17th Place, injuring two adults and one child.

Aurora police responded to the area after one of the victims, a 34-year-old man, called 911 and said he had been shot.

The man was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was still hospitalized and listed in good condition as of Monday night, according to HCA HealthONE Aurora officials.

A 34-year-old woman was driving when the same bullet struck her in the side, and a 12-year-old girl was hit by projectiles during the shooting, police said. Both were discharged from the hospital. Two other children in the car were not injured.

Victims and witnesses gave differing accounts of what happened before the shooting, according to the arrest affidavit.

The woman and one of the juveniles told police they were at the park so the juvenile could meet up with someone. When the juvenile saw Campos-Anguiano had a gun, alcohol and marijuana, they became uncomfortable and decided to leave, which the victims said is when Campos-Anguiano followed and shot at them.

But a witness who was in the car with Campos-Anguiano told police they were at the park to buy alcohol from the victims, and after the victims handed over the bottles, Campos-Anguiano sped away before they were paid and the victims followed in their car.

Campos-Anguiano is in custody at the Arapahoe County Detention Center on a $250,000 bail and is set to appear in court Thursday.

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The vandalism includes the initials “JJ” and “MG” surrounded by a heart, according to a photo posted on social media.

“There are many ways to express love. Spray painting a rock at beautiful St. Mary’s Glacier in the Arapaho National Forest is NOT one of them,” sheriff’s officials said. “It’s illegal, it’s selfish and it’s more permanent than their love likely will be.”

Anyone who witnessed the incident or has information about who JJ and MG are can contact the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office.

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South Metro and Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office crews were called to the office park in the 6400 block of South Quebec Street at around 11:06 a.m., the agency said in a post on X.

A silver SUV hit the outside of one building and two cars before crashing through a window into a second office building. No one inside was injured, fire officials said.

All 14 businesses in the second building were evacuated. The first building had structural damage and is being shored up by rescue crews.

The city’s building inspector will take over evaluating the second building and the sheriff’s office is investigating the cause of the crash.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

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The cuts come at a time of rising need across the state, said Erin Pulling, CEO of Food Bank of the Rockies.

“We’re facing the highest rates of food insecurity that we’ve seen in more than 10 years,” Pulling said. “Not only do we need these funds replaced, but food banks and food pantries need more support than ever.”

Food Bank of the Rockies serves around 400,000 people every year, and a recent cut to a federal emergency food assistance program means the organization lost funding for about 7% of daily meals distributed, Pulling said.

It’s a particularly hard loss because the high-quality groceries provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture program are the core of what people get from the food bank, rounded out by donations from individuals.

Yet another federal cut eliminated money to buy food from local producers, known as the Local Food Purchase Assistance initiative, Pulling said. In the past few years, that has amounted to about $2 million in food purchased from about 50 farmers and ranchers across Colorado and Wyoming. If the organization can’t replace both sources of funding, there will be less food given to fewer people.

The same cuts hit Feeding Colorado, which represents five food banks serving all of the state’s 64 counties, executive director Mandy Nuku said. It has taken millions of dollars of food off the table that otherwise would have been distributed this year — about 20% of the food distributed by the food banks and as much as half of the food stocked in rural areas comes from the USDA’s Emergency Food Assistance Program, she said.

“Food is what often drives people into the network of social services, but it’s rarely their only challenge,” Nuku said. “We know that the problem is growing at a greater pace than the resources, and so any cuts to federal programs like this makes it harder to serve our neighbors.”

When federal immigration agents descended on metro Denver apartment complexes this year, workers at the Village Exchange Center thought the crackdown might scare many of the north Aurora nonprofit’s clients into hiding.

But the opposite has happened, with more and more people seeking help as deep federal funding cuts jeopardize the work of food banks across the state, CEO Amanda Blaurock said.

“We’re making adjustments across the board. We’re trying to raise money in different ways, and I’m reaching out to everyone I know, but it’s pretty extreme,” Blaurock said.

The cuts mean about a third of the Village Exchange Center’s budget has disappeared in recent months, including $2.1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support the food pantry and Venezuelan migrants, tens of thousands of whom sought help from the center last year. Blaurock said 800 to 1,100 families obtain meals and hygiene products from the food pantry every week.

In a termination letter sent by FEMA, the agency cited direction from Trump and said that “grant programs that support, or have the potential to support, illegal immigration through funding illegal activities or support for illegal aliens … do not effectuate the agency’s current priorities.”

The cuts could threaten the jobs of 10 full-time employees and contractors in the immediate future, and without additional funding, Blaurock said, the center will run out of money to stock its food pantry by the end of July.

“It’s all created a vulnerability that’s very sad for our community and for our team,” she said. “It feels very personal.”

Pulling said she hopes the USDA will launch new programs to replace those that were cut. One recent batch of funding for federal emergency food programs is “a start of what we need to see to meet the need,” she said.

“I’m hoping the general public knows the tremendous need we’re facing and that more people will send contributions,” she said. “We are more dependent on the generosity of the public than ever before.”

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Diana Gathright, 60, was staying at Dao House on April 6, 2023, when she went out onto her balcony to stargaze and the door locked behind her, according to a complaint filed in Larimer County District Court on Thursday.

Gathright was the only person staying at the lodge at the time. Dao House employees stay in a different building and there is no cell phone service at the facility, attorneys with Denver firm Cheney Galluzi & Howard wrote in the lawsuit.

Gathright was on the balcony for three hours in single-digit temperatures and tried to break the window to her room with balcony furniture before she decided to lower herself to the ground to escape. She landed on a snow-covered log which broke multiple bones, lacerated her liver and collapsed one of her lungs.

Multiple other people had previously gotten locked out on the balcony, the lawsuit claims, and the lodge owners should have known the automatic locking doors created dangerous conditions.

Failing to protect their guest is “a breach of (the lodge’s) duties to exercise reasonable care to protect against dangers of which they knew or should have known,” Gathright’s attorneys wrote.

Gathright was permanently injured by the fall and still experiences pain, according to the complaint.

She is seeking unspecified damages for medical expenses, permanent impairment and pain and suffering.

Representatives for Dao House could not be reached for comment on the lawsuit Friday.

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