DEPUTIES BUY BIKE FOR ONE STOLEN FROM MOURNER
THORNTON» Two Colorado sheriff’s deputies bought a new mountain bike for a man whose bike was stolen while he stood for hours holding a flag near where another deputy had been shot and killed.
KUSA-TV reported the theft on Thursday, and the Adams County deputies brought a new mountain bike to Michael Kapaun the next day.
Kapaun is known around the community of Thornton as “the guy on the bike” and says that’s his only form of transportation.
He spent about six hours Thursday near the perimeter of the crime scene, holding a flag in honor of Deputy Heath Gumm, who was killed Wednesday night. At some point, his bike was stolen. Kapaun gave the flag to the deputies and asked that it be offered to Gumm’s family.
Police investigating overnight shootings. A shooting at a bar on West Colfax Avenue sent a woman to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries early Saturday morning, making it the third shooting in Denver overnight.
Preliminary investigations suggest that a fight started inside The Viking, a bar on West Colfax Avenue east of Sheridan Boulevard, and eventually spilled outside, Denver Police Department spokesman Doug Schepman said. Around 1:40 a.m., someone shot bullets into the bar from the outside.
Police have not made an arrest yet. The name of the woman and the various people involved have not been released at this time.
At about 9 p.m. Friday, an officer shot and wounded a suspect in the hand during a foot chase following an armed robbery.
An hour earlier, a man was shot and killed on Federal Boulevard and West Alameda Avenue. A homicide investigation is underway.
Colorado woman, 76, caught after high speed chase. CHEYENNE» A 76-year-old Colorado woman led Wyoming police on an interstate highway pursuit that exceeded 100 mph at times before her vehicle was disabled by tire spikes.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the incident started about 12:25 p.m. Thursday when a trooper clocked a vehicle traveling 96 mph in an 80 mph zone on Interstate 25 near Kaycee.
The vehicle did not stop and eventually merged onto eastbound I-90 where police deployed the spikes.
No one was hurt, and the woman was taken into custody without incident. She was preliminarily charged with reckless driving and eluding a police officer.