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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Aurora police found the body under an overpass crossing Toll Gate Creek near Potomac Street and Potomac Circle on April 1, according to a news release.

Officers first learned about the body when they responded to a fight near I-225 and Sixth Avenue, according to the release. The people involved in the fight told officers there were human remains under a nearby overpass north of the intersection.

The remains belong to an unidentified Black man in his 30s who was about 5-foot-5 and about 140 pounds, according to the Arapahoe County coroner’s office.

The man had short, curly black hair and was wearing a brown leather jacket, a fluorescent green sweatshirt, a gray-and-black hooded shirt, black sweatpants, camouflage shorts and light brown boots.

Police said the remains may belong to a man named Ben who frequented the East Colfax Avenue and I-225 corridors before his death. Aurora homicide detectives and the coroner’s office have not been able to positively ID the man, and no ID was found with the body.

It’s not clear how the man died.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office at 720-874-3625 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

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Michael Sang Correa was charged with torturing five men believed to be opponents of Yahya Jammeh following an unsuccessful plot to remove him from power in 2006.

A jury that heard the case in U.S. District Court in Denver found Correa guilty of torturing people. He also was charged with conspiring with others to commit torture while serving in a military unit known as the “Junglers,” which reported directly to Jammeh, in the latest international trial tied to his regime.

Correa came to the U.S. in 2016 to work as a bodyguard for Jammeh, eventually settling in Denver, where prosecutors said he worked as a day laborer. Correa, who prosecutors say overstayed his visa after Jammeh’s ouster in 2017, was indicted in 2020 under a rarely used law that allows people to be tried in the U.S. judicial system for torture allegedly committed abroad.

Survivors traveled from Gambia, Europe and elsewhere in the U.S. to testify, telling the jury they were tortured by methods such as being electrocuted and hung upside down while being beaten. Some had plastic bags put over their heads.

Prosecutors showed the jury photos of victims with scars left by objects including a bayonet, a burning cigarette and ropes. The men were asked to circle scars on photos and explain how they received them.

The defense had argued Correa was a low-ranking private who risked torture and death himself if he disobeyed superiors and that he did not have a choice about whether to participate, let alone a decision to make about whether to join a conspiracy.

But while the U.S. government agreed that there’s evidence that the Junglers lived in “constant fear,” prosecutors said some Junglers refused to participate in the torture.

In 2021, a truth commission in Gambia urged that the perpetrators of crimes committed under Jammeh’s regime be prosecuted by the government. Other countries have also tried people connected with his rule.

Last year, Jammeh’s former interior minister was sentenced to 20 years behind bars by a Swiss court for crimes against humanity. In 2023, a German court convicted a Gambian man who was also a member of the Junglers of murder and crimes against humanity for involvement in the killing of government critics in Gambia.

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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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U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney approved a temporary restraining order Monday night after the American Civil Liberties Union sued President Donald Trump and members of his administration on behalf of two Venezuelan men, referred to only by their initials, “and others similarly situated” who have been accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

For two weeks, the federal government is barred from using the Alien Enemies Act to remove plaintiffs D.B.U, R.M.M. and any other noncitizens accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang from both the state and the country.

“This ruling is a critical step toward restoring the rule of law in the face of a rogue administration that has shown utter disregard for the Constitution,” Raquel Lane-Arellano, the communications manager at the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, said Tuesday.

The judge’s order will remain in effect until a hearing is held in the case in Denver on April 21.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March, proclaiming Venezuelans who are members of TdA and not lawful residents of the U.S. “are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed as Alien Enemies.” The administration has used the act to send immigrants — including at least one Venezuelan who had been detained in Colorado — to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.

The act has been used only three other times in American history, most recently to intern Japanese-American citizens during World War II.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that anyone being deported under the declaration deserved a hearing in federal court first.

That led federal judges in New York and Texas to place temporary holds on deportations in those areas until Trump’s Republican administration presented a procedure for allowing such appeals. Sweeney’s order follows in their footsteps.

The Colorado order also comes as the ACLU warned, in an emergency filing, that the Trump administration as recently as Monday night may have been preparing Venezuelan men in custody in Aurora for another deportation flight.

The civil rights organization’s attorneys said they had received reports Monday that Venezuelan men being held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s contract detention facility who were accused of being affiliated with the TdA gang “were rousted from bed and told that they would be leaving.”

The men repeatedly asked where they would be taken, and ICE  agents allegedly refused to answer, ACLU officials said in the document. The flight was later canceled and, as of Tuesday morning, the men remained in Colorado, the attorneys said.

Colorado immigrant advocacy groups applauded the ACLU’s legal challenge to the Alien Enemies Act and the judge’s order.

“The disappearance of our neighbors to a notorious prison without due process should be a wake-up call to the people of the United States,” said Jennifer Piper, the program director for the Colorado office of the American Friends Service Committee.

She added that the Trump administration is asking Congress to triple the budget for immigration detention from $25 billion to more than $60 billion — a request her group opposes.

“We hope that, as a country, we can do more than sending people to foreign prisons,” said Andrea Loya, the executive director of Aurora-based nonprofit Casa de Paz, on Tuesday. “We urge the federal government to make it right for the people they sent to El Salvador without due process.”

The Trump administration’s implementation of the Alien Enemies Act and the lawsuits that followed have become a flashpoint as more than 200 alleged TdA members have been sent from the U.S. to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in El Salvador, escalating tension between the White House and federal courts.

Inmates in El Salvadoran prisons face “life-threatening conditions, persecution and torture,” ACLU officials argued in court documents. That constitutes “irreparable harm,” they said.

D.B.U., a 31-year-old man who fled Venezuela after he was imprisoned for his political activity and protesting against the Venezuelan government, was arrested in January during a raid of what law enforcement and immigration officials have repeatedly called a “Tren de Aragua party” in Adams County.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said 41 people arrested that night were living in Colorado illegally and claimed dozens were connected to the TdA gang. None of those people were criminally charged.

According to the ACLU, D.B.U. was identified as a gang member based on a tattoo of his niece’s name — his only tattoo. He “vehemently denied” being a TdA member.

The second plaintiff in the lawsuit, 25-year-old R.M.M., fled Venezuela after two members of his family were killed by the TdA gang. ACLU officials said in the lawsuit he was afraid the gang would also kill him, his wife and his children.

R.M.M. was detained in March after federal agents saw him standing with other Hispanic men near their cars outside a Colorado residence that law enforcement believed was connected to the TdA gang, according to court records. Like D.B.U., R.M.M. was identified as a gang member based on his tattoos, including one of his birth year, one of his mother’s name, one of “religious significance” and a character from the Monopoly board game.

He is not and never has been a member of TdA, ACLU officials wrote in court documents.

The ACLU claims Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is invalid because the TdA gang is not a “foreign nation or government,” and there has been no “invasion or predatory incursion” — both of which are required to invoke the act.

“Criminal activity does not meet the longstanding definitions of those statutory requirements,” ACLU officials said in the lawsuit. “Thus, the government’s attempt to summarily remove Venezuelan noncitizens exceeds the wartime authority that Congress delegated in the AEA.”

In addition to Trump, the Colorado lawsuit names U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the Denver Field Office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Robert Gaudian and Denver Contract Detention Facility warden Dawn Ceja.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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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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“Is writing a letter and copying 140 people on it the best way to go? Sometimes,” the owner of Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar said of the email he sent in early February. “Sometimes you got to make a lot of noise. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.”

An increased police presence, which Johnston announced at a news conference earlier this month, is the main reason Query is optimistic about LoDo’s future.

A four-person, mounted horse patrol unit, 10 extra officers and a safety hub kiosk at 16th and Arapahoe streets are among the changes Johnston announced to improve conditions along the 16th Street Mall. He also touted additional private security presence and expanded mental health and paramedic support for the area.

“That’s all we were asking for,” Query said. “Let’s reinstate law and order down here so that if people need help, they get the help they need and they’re not just left on the corner to just be unhinged for hours at a time.”

Query is hopeful that downtown infrastructure, like sidewalks and trees, will get cleaned up too. This is the first year the city is responsible for sidewalk repairs and maintenance following a 2022 ballot measure.

He said a decrepit Westword distribution box in front of Jax, which is at the corner of 17th and Wazee, and a dumpster taking up two parking spaces have already been moved by the city.

“This is your marquee, showcase, tourist destination,” he said. “When you got big roll-off dumpsters, the (parking) meters are bagged, the sidewalks and the curbs are all cracked, the tree wells are broken, some of the trees are dead. It’s like, ‘Wow, this place really needs some love.’ And they’re promising that love.”

Query said he and a group of LoDo restaurateurs and business owners met with Johnston, Police Chief Ron Thomas and Adeeb Khan, the director of Denver’s Economic Development and Opportunity office, in early March, going line-by-line through his February letter for 90 minutes.

Query noted that the city officials agreed with most of the letter and promised to come back with a plan to address his big asks, like more police, better infrastructure and parking solutions.

Query said he met with the group a second time on April 2 after Johnston’s news conference, where they laid out how the new initiative corresponds to Query’s original complaints.

Though Query had nothing but positive things to say about interacting with the city, he noted that follow-through still needs to happen. He said things like Colorado’s use of personal recognizance bonds, which allow someone to get released from jail without paying bail as long as they promise to appear in court, need to change too.

“(Cops are) walking into situations where they don’t have the authority they need to do the job, to enforce the laws,” he said. “They’re just there to be babysitters at times.

“But I do think (more police downtown) will create an uncomfortable situation,” he added. “Nobody wants to party with their parents, so you go to where your parents aren’t.”

As far as parking goes, Query said he thinks the increased patrol will lead to better enforcement of meters with yellow no-parking bags on them from Wednesday through Friday. He said oftentimes the city doesn’t take them off when they should at 11:59 p.m. on Fridays, effectively eliminating parking throughout the weekend.

He also said getting food trucks more spaces in front of empty storefronts rather than closer to open retailers is another necessary step to open up more parking spaces. He said Seattle and Portland, Oregon, which have parks and alleys dedicated to the mobile kitchens, are good examples to follow.

“It’s not a light switch. It’s going to take a minute. And that’s cool. … Of course it’s going to take a minute,” he said. “But just the whole energy and positioning and what seemed to be a real forthright commitment to, ‘Yes, we hear you. Yes, we agree with some, if not most, of what you’re saying, … and that we’re committed to making it right for downtown.’”

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