Foot Chase For Suspect Puts D-3 Schools On Alert

The search continues for a wanted man who led police on a chase in Security-Widefield and forced three District 3 schools to go on alert Wednesday afternoon.

Police say the man they’re after is 26-year-old Carl Roquemore who’s wanted on two felony burglary warrants. Roquemore has a long criminal past with prior charges including domestic violence, menacing, robbery, and fraud.

Police said they checked several addresses in Colorado Springs for Roquemore, and caught up with him and his girlfriend as they tried to pick up her daughter from day care. The woman stopped the car in the parking lot of Uncle Fred’s Tavern in Security-Widefield and surrendered to police, but Roquemore took off running.

He was spotted again a few blocks away, near Landoe Lane and Watson Boulevard. Police and sheriff’s deputies staked out the neighborhood for more than an hour, but never found Roquemore.

The search caused Venetucci and Talbott elementary schools and Watson Junior High to go on “secure perimeter” status from about 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. No one was allowed in the schools.

“It’s not a lock down, this is a secure perimeter which means there wasn’t an imminent threat to the buildings. However, with this arrest going on in the area, we didn’t want anyone inside or outside the schools,” said D-3 spokeman James Drew.

Police say Roquemore is a black man and was last seen wearing a black tank top and black pants.