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FILE - Tributes hang on the temporary fence surrounding the parking lot in front of a King Soopers grocery store in which 10 people died in a late March 2021 mass shooting, April 9, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. More than two years after police say Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shot and killed 10 people at the supermarket in Colorado, prosecutors are finally set to lay out their case against the mentally ill man who was deemed competent in early 2023 to stand trial. A judge is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, to decide if there is enough evidence for Alissa, who has schizophrenia, to go on trial. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Colorado supermarket shooting suspect pleads not guilty by reason of insanity
The defendant in a 2021 mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa entered his plea Tuesday after a judge ruled to move the case to trial.
 
Sheneen McClain, right, mother of Elijah McClain, and friend and supporter MiDian Holmes embrace after suspended Aurora, Colo., Police officer Nathan Woodyard was acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah, outside of the Adams County Justice Center on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (Hart Van Denburg/Colorado Public Radio via AP)
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the cases against police and paramedics
A jury has acquitted another Denver-area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died.
 
FILE - The roofs of houses stack up on a hillside in a development in the east Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo., Thursday, May 4, 2006. In the election, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, voters will determine the fate of Proposition HH, a measure aimed at easing the immediate property tax increase facing the state's landowners while lifting Colorado's revenue cap for the foreseeable future. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Colorado voters reject measure that would have lowered property tax by eating into their tax refunds
Despite seeing home values soar by double digits, Colorado voters have rejected lowering their property tax bills by eating into special state tax refunds — which returned $750 to each taxpayer last year.
 
Sheneen McClain, left, mother of Elijah McClain, and friend and supporter MiDian Holmes, right, clasp hands as they hold up their fists in protest over the verdict of a Denver-area police offer who was acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah, outside of the Adams County Justice Center on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP)
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the cases against police and paramedics
A jury has acquitted another Denver-area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before the Black man was injected with the powerful sedative ketamine by paramedics and died.
 
FILE - Aurora, Colo., police officer Nathan Woodyard attends an arraignment hearing after being charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, Jan. 20, 2023, at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo. Closing arguments are scheduled Friday, Nov. 3, in the trial of the police officer charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man stopped as he walked home from the store after someone reported that he was suspicious. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)
2nd police officer acquitted in death of Elijah McClain, who was put in a neck hold, given ketamine
A second Denver-area police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. The 23-year-old Black man was put in a neck hold and injected with ketamine after police stopped him as he walked home from a convenience store.
 
FILE - Aurora, Colo., police officer Nathan Woodyard attends an arraignment hearing after being charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, Jan. 20, 2023, at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo. Closing arguments are scheduled Friday, Nov. 3, in the trial of the police officer charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death of McClain, a 23-year-old Black man stopped as he walked home from the store after someone reported that he was suspicious. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)
Jurors deliberating in manslaughter trial of officer who used neck hold on Elijah McClain
Jurors began deliberations Friday in the case of a Colorado police officer who stopped Elijah McClain as he walked home from the store and put the 23-year-old Black man in a neck hold.
 
FILE - People ride the Giant Canyon Swing at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colo., June 10, 2011. A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up the mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (Christopher Tomlinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, File)
911 call shows man suspected in plan to attack Colorado amusement park was found dead near a ride
The body of a heavily armed man who authorities suspected was planning a “heinous” attack at a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado was discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the bathroom at a building that houses a ride that drops 110-feet deep into caverns.
 
FILE - Aurora, Colo., Police Officer Nathan Woodyard, center, is flanked by his lawyers, Andrew Ho, left, and Megan Downing, right, during an arraignment after being charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain at the Adams County Justice Center, Jan. 20, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. Woodyard testified Wednesday, Nov. 1, that he had feared for his life when he applied a neck hold on the 23-year-old Black man before paramedics injected McClain with a fatal overdose of ketamine. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)
Officer charged in Elijah McClain’s death says he feared for his life after disputed gun grab
A police officer charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain has testified that he put the 23-year-old Black man in a neck hold because he feared for his life.
 
FILE - People ride the Giant Canyon Swing at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Glenwood Springs, Colo., June 10, 2011. A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up the mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday, Oct. 30, 2023. (Christopher Tomlinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP, File)
Police say armed man killed himself instead of carrying out apparent plan to attack amusement park
Police say a heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to attack at a Colorado amusement park.
 
Colorado judge chides company that tried to pay $23,500 settlement in coins weighing 3 tons
A Colorado judge chided a welding company that tried to pay off a $23,500 settlement with a subcontractor by sending the money in loose coins that weighed 3 tons.
 
FILE - A sign stands outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus, June 6, 2013, in Fort Meade, Md. A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado pleaded guilty, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, to trying to sell classified information to Russia. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Former NSA worker pleads guilty to trying to sell US secrets to Russia
A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado has pleaded guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia.
 
FILE - Marlon Wayans attends the "Marlon" FYC Event at UCB Theatre, June 6, 2018, in Los Angeles. In a court filing Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, Denver prosecutors have asked a judge to dismiss a case against Marlon Wayans stemming from a luggage dispute with an airline employee that the actor and comedian said targeted him because of his race. The city attorney’s office made the request in a court filing Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly prosecuted after being racially targeted by gate agent
Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans says he is being unfairly being prosecuted for disturbing the peace over a dispute with an airline employee he claims targeted him because of his race.
 
A roadside memorial for Alexa Bartell, age 20, who was killed by a rock thrown at her vehicle on April 19, 2023 stands on April 28, in Broomfield, Colo. Three teenagers charged with her murder are set to appear in court Wednesday, Oct. 18, for an evidentiary hearing to determine if their case should go to trial. (Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post via AP)
Colorado men accused of taking photo after rock-throwing death will stand trial for murder
Three men charged in the death of a 20-year-old driver who was hit in the head by a rock that crashed through her windshield in Colorado will stand trial on murder and other charges.
 
FILE - A demonstrator carries an image of Elijah McClain during a rally and march in Aurora, Colo., June 27, 2020. McClain, a 23-year-old Black man, died after a 2019 encounter with police. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the cases against police and paramedics
Prosecutors say a Denver area police officer who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold before he was injected with ketamine by paramedics bears responsibility for the Black man’s 2019 death.
 
FILE - Investigators stand outside a house where five people, immigrants from the West African nation of Senegal, were found dead after a fire, Aug. 5, 2020, in Denver. Colorado’s highest court on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, upheld the search of Google users' keyword history to identify suspects in the 2020 fatal arson fire, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people's privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)
Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson
Colorado’s highest court has upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history to identify suspects in a fatal arson fire.
 
This image provided by the Colorado State Patrol shows a truck caught under a bridge that collapsed during a train derailment across a major highway near Pueblo, Colo., Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. The main north-south highway in Colorado remained closed Monday morning and the Colorado Department of Transportation said it expected an "extended closure." The truck driver was initially said to be trapped in the Sunday afternoon accident along Interstate 25, but authorities said Monday that he had died. (Colorado Highway Patrol via AP)
Truck driver killed when train derailment collapses Colorado bridge, spilling coal cars onto highway
Authorities in Colorado say a truck driver was killed when a train derailed near Pueblo, Colorado, and caused a railroad bridge to collapse onto a major highway.
 
FILE - In this photo provided by the Colorado Judicial Branch, prosecutor Jonathan Bunge gives opening statements at the start of a trial of two of the police officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain, Sept. 20, 2023, in Brighton Colo. (Colorado Judicial Branch via AP, File)
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the cases against police and paramedics
Jurors delivered a split verdict against two officers charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain during the first of several trials over the Black man’s fatal confrontation with police while walking home in suburban Denver, convicting one and clearing the other.
 
Former Aurora, Colo., Police Department officer Randy Roedema leaves the courtroom after he was convicted of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain after a trial in the Adams County, Colo., courthouse Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
1 of 2 Colorado officers convicted in Elijah McClain’s death after neck hold, ketamine injection
Jurors have convicted a Denver-area police officer and acquitted another of charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a Black man whose name became a rallying cry in protests over racial injustice in policing.
 
FILE - A makeshift memorial stands at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers before family members hold a news conference, July 3, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. Lawyers are to deliver closing arguments Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in the trial of the first two police officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of McClain, a Black man who was put in a neck hold and pinned down by officers in the Denver suburb of Aurora before paramedics injected him with a powerful sedative. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Prosecutors say Elijah McClain was just walking home as jury urged to convict officers in his death
Prosecutors seeking a conviction of two Colorado police officers in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain have implored a jury during closing arguments to remember that he was just trying to walk home on the night of the fatal encounter.
 
FILE - Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in March, is led into a courtroom for a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. FILE - A Colorado judge ruled Friday that Alissa, accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in a 2021 rampage, is mentally competent to stand trial. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski/Pool, File)
Man accused of killing 10 at Colorado supermarket in 2021 is ruled mentally competent to stand trial
A judge has ruled that the man accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 is mentally competent to stand trial. Friday’s decision allows the prosecution of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa to move forward.
 
FILE - Former Officer Jason Rosenblatt, left, and Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema, right, attend an arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo., Jan. 20, 2023. The two officers face felony charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)
Neck hold used on Elijah McClain emerges as focal point in officers’ trial over his 2019 death
A neck hold that Denver-area police used on Elijah McClain prior to the Black man’s 2019 death lasted only seconds. But it’s emerged as a focal point in the first criminal trial against officers and paramedics charged in his death.
 
FILE - Former Officer Jason Rosenblatt, left, and Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema, right, attend an arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo., Jan. 20, 2023. The two officers face felony charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal trial of two officers
Defense attorneys for two Denver-area police officers charged in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain are trying to cast doubt on whether a neck hold by police contributed to his death.
 
FILE - Jack Phillips, who's case was heard by the Supreme Court several years ago after he objected to designing a wedding cake for a gay couple, speaks to supporters outside the Supreme Court, Dec. 5, 2022, in Washington. Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, that it will hear the case of Phillips, a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Colorado high court to hear case against Christian baker who refused to make LGBTQ-themed cake
Colorado’s highest court says it will hear the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. The decision announced Tuesday comes after a U.S.
 
Emergency responders work the scene of semitruck crash in Teutopolis, Ill., on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. Federal regulators confirmed Saturday they are reviewing the crash of a semitruck carrying a toxic substance in central Illinois, resulting in “multiple fatalities” and dangerous air conditions that prompted the evacuation of area residents. (NewsNation-WTWO via AP)
Attempt to pass a tanker may have led to the deadly chemical crash in Illinois, official says
A federal transportation official says a fatal tanker truck crash in central Illinois that released a deadly chemical may have started when another vehicle tried to pass the truck on a highway.
 
This undated photo provided by the sheriff's office of Chaffee County, Colo., shows Suzanne Morphew, who went for a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020 and never returned. Authorities announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, that investigators discovered Morphew's remains the previous Friday near Moffat, Colo., about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of the Salida area, where she was reported missing. (Chaffee County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Suzanne Morphew’s remains found 3 years after she went missing in Colorado. What happened to her?
The discovery of Suzanne Morphew’s remains three years after the Colorado woman went missing is raising new questions about what happened to her.
 
Kathleen Boleyn, mother of Johnny Hurley who was fatally shot by a police officer from the Arvada, Colo., Police Department in June 2021, speaks near a photograph of her while discussing the $2.77-million settlement reached with the northwest Denver suburban city Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, in Denver. Boleyn's son was shot after he had killed an active shooter who had killed an Arvada officer in the city's Olde Town area on June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Mom of Colorado man killed by police after taking ‘heroic’ actions to stop gunman settles with city
A Colorado city has reached a nearly $2.8 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the mother of a man killed by police after taking heroic actions to stop a gunman who had shot another officer.
 
FILE - Former Officer Jason Rosenblatt, left, and Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema, right, attend an arraignment at the Adams County Justice Center in Brighton, Colo., Jan. 20, 2023. The two officers face felony charges in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)
What to know about Elijah McClain’s death and the criminal trial of two officers
The trial of two Denver-area police officers charged in Elijah McClain’s 2019 death is underway this week.
 
Sheneen McClain, mother of Elijah McClain, looks on outside the courtroom at the Adams County Justice Center for the start of a trial of two of the police officers charged in the death of McClain, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Brighton Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Video of Elijah McClain’s stop by police shown as officers on trial in Black man’s death
Elijah McClain’s mother left a Colorado courtroom in tears as prosecutors showed jurors disturbing video footage of the 2019 confrontation with police in a Denver suburb that led to McClain’s death.
 
Sheneen McClain, mother of Elijah McClain, sits outside the courtroom at the Adams County Justice Center for the start of a trial of two of the police officers charged in the death of her son, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Prosecutors seek to show enhanced bodycam video of Elijah McClain’s fatal encounter with police
Colorado prosecutors are focusing on police body camera footage — both raw and digitally enhanced — as they build their case against two officers charged in the death of Elijah McClain.
 
Sheneen McClain, mother of Elijah McClain, sits outside the courtroom at the Adams County Justice Center for the start of a trial of two of the police officers charged in the death of her son, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Brighton, Colo. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Officers who put Elijah McClain in neck hold ignored pleas of ‘I can’t breathe,’ prosecutors say
Prosecutors in Colorado say two Denver-area police officers who put Elijah McClain in a neck hold ignored his pleas that he couldn’t breathe.
 
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