COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The killing of 19-year-old De’Von Bailey came years before Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 217, the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity bill. Had SB20-217 been law during the 2019 shooting, officers would have had to use different techniques before deploying deadly force against Bailey. Known as the “fleeing felon law,”
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After a year of having her mail stolen, a KRDO viewer said she was able to catch the thief on camera via a lens hidden in the eaves of a community mailbox. The woman, who lives in the Cheyenne Mountain neighborhood, said she has lost a variety of items, from financial documents to Christmas presents.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that a suspect has been booked into custody for a murder charge in connection with the case of missing 19-year-old Kara Nichols. Nichols was reported missing since Oct. 9, 2012, and she was last seen near her home at 6700 Mission Road.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Newly released court documents reveal that the man who is facing charges for the shooting deaths of a woman and baby told a 911 dispatcher that he wasn’t feeling well, and “something just came over” him when he allegedly shot and killed the two. Colorado Springs Police arrested 29-year-old David
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Robert Graff was playing video games inside his home Friday evening when four bullets came flying through his his window. One of the bullets grazed his left side, sending him to the hospital. Colorado Springs police responded to a shooting shortly after 9:30 p.m. Friday. Police say that witnesses heard
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser is seeking a court order to stop the owner of a Colorado Springs-based company from practicing law without a license and deceptively advertising the business is qualified to provide family and immigration services. According to the Attorney General’s Office, an investigation by the Consumer Fraud
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A suspect is in custody after allegedly hitting another person with a fire extinguisher at a Colorado Springs 7/11. The Colorado Springs Police Department says they received a call from clerks saying two customers inside the store were fighting and it was getting violent. When police arrived at the scene,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — 13 Investigates has learned a settlement agreement has been reached in an excessive force lawsuit filed by a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestor against a Colorado Springs Police Officer that wrote “KILL EM ALL” on a KRDO live stream of a BLM protest. The settlement agreement shows that the City
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Maria Honzell was just 14 years old when she was robbed of her future. The teen accepted a babysitting job at the apartments across from hers on North Nevada Avenue back in February of 1977. She never made it home. The killer somehow made it into the apartment after Honzell
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Two orphaned male bear cubs are back in the wild after they were found back in July when their mom was killed in a poaching incident in Woodland Park. For the last six months, the cubs have been at Wet Mountain Wildlife Rehabilitation in Wetmore. Workers made sure the cubs
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A man is in custody after allegedly firing into a house where his ex and child were in. On January 23, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Communications center dispatched deputies to the 11000 block of Tiffin Dr. in unincorporated El Paso County on reports of a residential burglary
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Friday afternoon, several students held a protest at Liberty High School in response to alleged sexual misconduct among students. Allison Cortez with Academy School District 20 shared with KRDO an email sent to the Liberty High School Community about the situation: This afternoon, during lunch period, a group of approximately
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department arrested a man accused of drug trafficking. According to police, AVOU personnel acted on source information indicating a man had a firearm and was drug trafficking from the Springs Motel on W. Colorado Ave. On January 26, officers arrested Jacob Pinski on an outstanding warrant.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Police arrested a suspect in connection to multiple armed robberies across Colorado Springs, Fountain, and Monument. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, the robberies began in early December 2021 and ended on January 13, the day the suspect was taken into custody. Below is a list of the robberies:
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — Letecia Stauch, the El Paso County woman accused of brutally murdering her stepson, appeared in court Thursday, exactly two years to the day since she reported the fifth-grader missing. 11-year-old Gannon Stauch was found under a Florida bridge weeks after his 2020 disappearance. A law enforcement officer present for his
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A new report, published by the National Law Enforcement Memorial and Museum (NLEOMF), says law enforcement line-of-duty deaths in the United States were up approximately 55% in 2021 compared to 2020. Out of the 458 confirmed law enforcement line-of-duty deaths in 2021, COVID-19-related fatalities were the leading category. According to
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Coroner’s Office identified the man who was found by Colorado Springs Police Department early Friday morning near Nichols Boulevard. Police are actively investigating the man’s death as a homicide. In Colorado Springs Police Department’s statement, the coroner’s office have identified the man as Brian MacDonald,
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – $15,000 worth of ATVs and a trailer was stolen from a property in Black Forest, and now investigators need help to identify the suspects who were caught on camera. Black Forest ATV Thieves The crime happened January 17 at 1:30 p.m. The victim tells KRDO that the suspects cut
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — The Fountain Police Department recovered a stolen vehicle out of Northern Colorado and arrested a man on multiple charges. On Saturday, officers found a vehicle reported stolen out of Thornton in the 1100 block of South Santa Fe at 10:45 a.m. Police say there was one occupant in the vehicle, later
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — A man is in custody after officers with the Fountain Police Department found suspected drugs during a traffic stop. According to police, officers stopped the suspect in the area of Southmoor Drive and Lovitt Lane on Jan. 21 at 9:30 p.m. for a moving violation. During the stop, officers requested the
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