List of shootings in Colorado

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There have been numerous shootings at schools or public places in Colorado.

List[]

In the age of mass media, three Colorado massacres in the Denver metropolitan area made significant impacts on the national consciousness: the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, which resulted in 15 deaths (including the post-massacre suicides by the two perpetrators); the Aurora shooting in 2012, which resulted in 12 deaths; and the 2021 Boulder shooting, which resulted in ten deaths.[1]

Events Location Date Number
of
persons
killed		 Description
Sand Creek Massacre Present day Kiowa County November 29, 1864 70 to 500 A 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70–500 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.
1914 Ludlow Massacre Ludlow April 20, 1914 23–29 The Colorado National Guard and camp guards of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company fired on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families. Part of the Colorado Coalfield War.
1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting Aurora December 14, 1993 4 Nathan Dunlap, 18, who was fired from a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant as a cook, opened fire, killing four employees and wounding another. He was convicted of first degree murder and attempted murder charges and was sentenced to death.[2] In 2013, then-Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper indefinitely delayed Dunlap’s execution.[3] Although Hickenlooper was expected to order a clemency in his death penalty before his term ended in early 2019 but took no such action.[4] <ref. He was succeeded by Governor Jared Polis, who commuted Dunlap's sentence to life imprisonment. He said he conferred with the families of Dunlap's victims, personally felt that Dunlap's crimes were "despicable," but took the action as being consistent with Colorado's prior repeal of the death penalty in cases of new crimes.[5]
Columbine High School massacre Columbine April 20, 1999 15
(including both perpetrators)		 Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and one teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly, with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide. It is the fifth-deadliest school massacre in United States history, after the 1927 Bath School disaster, the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the 1966 University of Texas massacre, and remained the deadliest for an American high school until the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting of 2018.[citation needed]
2005 Denver police officer shooting Denver May 7–8, 2005 1 Two Denver police officers were shot at a dance hall by Raúl Gómez-García.
Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis Bailey September 27, 2006 2 Duane Roger Morrison, took a high school classroom hostage. Emily Keyes, one of the hostages, was shot and killed as she tried to escape. Morrison died after a combination of shooting himself and being shot by police.[6]
2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings Arvada / Colorado Springs December 9, 2007 5 Matthew Murray, opened fire at two church organizations in separate cities, killing four and wounding five others before committing suicide.
2010 Deer Creek Middle School shootings Littleton February 23, 2010 0 Bruco Eastwood, fired a rifle in the school’s parking lot, wounding two students. He was tackled by faculty and arrested. Eastwood was found to be legally insane and committed to the state mental hospital.
2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting Aurora July 20, 2012 12 James Holmes, opened fire during a midnight showing of the film "The Dark Knight Rises". In addition to 12 dead, 70 people were injured.[1][7]
2013 Arapahoe High School shooting Centennial December 13, 2013 2 Eighteen-year-old student Karl Pierson entered Arapahoe High School carrying Molotov cocktails and a shotgun. He shot another student and then shot himself dead.[8]
October 2015 Colorado Springs shooting Colorado Springs October 31, 2015 4
(including the perpetrator)		 Noah Harpham randomly killed three before responding police officers killed him. Harpham had been open carrying, and some open carry opponents would assert this allowed such a delay before a response that he was able to kill more individuals than in a case where a police intervention would have been warranted by his presence with a rifle.[9]
November 2015 Colorado Springs shooting Colorado Springs November 27, 2015 3 A shooting and five-hour standoff with police occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.[10] A University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer and two civilians were killed in the shooting, one was a mother of two and the other was an Iraqi war vet.[11][12] The killer, identified as Robert Lewis Dear,[13] was captured alive after police convinced him to surrender.[10] During his arrest, he gave a "rambling" interview[14] in which, at one point he said, "No more baby parts".[15][16][17] Nine other victims, comprising five police officers and four civilians, were also shot.
Thornton shooting Thornton November 1, 2017 3 A lone gunman named Scott Ostrem, walked into a Walmart store, killed three people near the cash registers, then fled the scene. All three victims were killed.[18] He had been arrested 14 times before the killings.[19]
STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting Highlands Ranch May 7, 2019 1 At STEM school in Highlands Ranch, 9 were shot including 1 dead. In 2019, Devon Erickson, an 18-year-old male, and another boy began to stand trial for the murders.[20]
Aurora Town Center shooting Aurora, Colorado December 27, 2019 1 A 17-year-old male was shot and killed inside a JCPenney store in the Aurora Town Center mall.[21] Kamyl Xavier Garrette, age 18, was charged with first degree murder in early January 2020.[22]
2021 Boulder shooting Boulder, Colorado March 22, 2021 10 A shooter opened fire in a King Soopers supermarket, killing ten people,[23] including one Police Officer (Ofc. Talley) and injuring the suspect with a gunshot to the leg.
2021 Colorado Springs shooting Colorado Springs, Colorado May 9, 2021 7
(including the suspect)		 At a birthday party, six adults were killed. The shooter then took his own life.[24]

References[]

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  2. ^ Nathan Dunlap on death row for Chuck E. Cheese shooting, CNN
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  4. ^ "Governor John Hickenlooper remains open to commuting death sentence for Chuck E. Cheese killer". The Denver Post. 19 April 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
  5. ^ The Three Men Polis Spared From Death, Colorado Public Radio, Andrew Kenney, March 23, 2020. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
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  8. ^ "Hospital: Teen who was shot at Colo. school dies". AP. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
  9. ^ "Did Colorado's Open Carry Law Delay Police Response to a Mass Shooter?". Mother Jones. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Turkewitz, Julie; Healy, Jack (27 November 2015). "3 Are Dead in Colorado Springs Shootout at Planned Parenthood Center". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  11. ^ "Death of UCCS police officer in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting confirmed". Colorado Springs Gazette. 28 November 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  12. ^ Shoichet, Catherine E.; Stapleton, AnneClaire; Botelho, Greg (27 November 2015). "Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting: 3 dead, suspect captured (updated)". CNN. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
  13. ^ Paul, Jesse; Steffen, Jordan; Ingold, John (27 November 2015). "Planned Parenthood shooting: 3 killed, including 1 police officer in Colorado Springs". The Denver Post. Archived from the original on 27 November 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  14. ^ Turkewitz, Julie (28 November 2015). "Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, 'Preferred to Be Left Alone'". New York Times. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  15. ^ "Colorado shooting suspect said 'no more baby parts': reports". Reuters.
  16. ^ "Planned Parenthood shooting: Suspect said 'no more baby parts'". BBC News.
  17. ^ Wesley Lowery (28 November 2015). "'No more baby parts,' suspect in attack at Colo. Planned Parenthood clinic told official". Washington Post.
  18. ^ Tegna. "Armed and dangerous suspect sought after Thornton Walmart triple shooting: Police". Kusa. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  19. ^ Police Arrest Suspect In Walmart Triple Shooting, CBS4, November 2, 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  20. ^ "Stem School Shootings". Denver Post. 2019.
  21. ^ Butzer, Stephanie (28 December 2019). "Juvenile dies in shooting at Aurora Town Center Friday afternoon". The Denver Channel.
  22. ^ Garrison, Robert (6 January 2020). "Aurora Town Center shooting suspect formally charged". The Denver Channel. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
  23. ^ "Boulder shooting: Gunman kills 10, including police officer, at King Soopers". Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  24. ^ "Colorado Springs mass shooting leaves 7 dead, including suspect, at birthday party: police".
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