A woman rafting on the Cache la Poudre River west of Fort Collins died Thursday after the raft hit a bridge pylon, according to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office. Emergency dispatchers first received calls at 12:55 p.m. about an empty commercial raft on the river near Greyrock Trailhead off of Colorado 14, sheriff’s officials said in a news release Friday. The trailhead is in Poudre Canyon approximately 18 miles west of Fort Collins. While responding, emergency crews learned that a group from a local rafting company struck a bridge pylon and an adult woman was injured and receiving CPR on th ..read more

A man incarcerated in Denver’s Downtown Detention Center died after being found unresponsive in his housing unit just after midnight Friday, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Inmate dies in custody at Denver detention center after medical emergency Crime and Public Safety | Denver police refused Auraria’s request to clear encampment a 2nd time; chief says “no legal way” to do so Crime and Public Safety | Denver jail deputy arrested in Jefferson County for assault, domestic violence Crime and Public Safety | Denver’s understaffed sh ..read more

Northbound lanes of E-470 near the airport will be closed for hours Friday due to a “major crash,” highway authorities said. All northbound lanes are closed near 88th Avenue and traffic is being detoured via Pena Boulevard. One southbound lane is closed and southbound traffic is being detoured via 96th Avenue to Tower Road. Highway authorities at 11:45 a.m. said it will take at least two hours to clear the crash. Information about potential injuries was not immediately available. Related Articles Transportation | Drew Gordon, brother of Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon, dies at 33 Transportatio ..read more

The Arapahoe County coroner on Friday identified a man shot and killed by Aurora police in an apartment complex near Expo Park as 37-year-old Kilyn Lewis. Lewis was suspected in an attempted homicide in Denver when the Aurora police SWAT team contacted him in the complex on South Ironton Street on May 23, police have previously said. Lewis was exiting a car at the apartment complex when police contacted him. An officer shot Lewis during the interaction and Lewis was hospitalized. Lewis died of a single gunshot wound on Saturday and the death was ruled a homicide, according to the Arapahoe Coun ..read more

COMMERCE CITY — Police in Colorado say a man’s sturdy necklace probably saved his life by blocking a bullet fired at his neck. The bullet lodged in the almost half-inch-wide, silver-colored, metal chain in the shooting Tuesday night in Commerce City, a suburb north of Denver. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Man killed by Aurora police officer identified as 37-year-old suspected in attempted homicide Crime and Public Safety | Aurora Police Department releases bodycam footage in fatal officer shooting on May 4 Crime and Public Safety | Sheridan police arrest suspect in murder case ..read more

By Katie Parkins, Denver7 FORT MORGAN, Colo. — A Western Sugar Co-Op worker died Wednesday following reported exposure to a chemical leak, Morgan County Sheriff Dave Martin announced Thursday. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Woman killed in auto-pedestrian crash in Cherry Hills Village Crime and Public Safety | Aurora Police Department releases bodycam footage in fatal officer shooting on May 4 Crime and Public Safety | Mother of teenage football player from Denver who drowned in pool sues team and coach Crime and Public Safety | Sheridan police arrest suspect in murder case C ..read more

The Aurora Police Department released a 911 recording and bodycam footage Thursday of the fatal shooting by two of its officers on May 4 of Jose Luis Rodriguez-Balderrama, a suspect in an earlier shooting at an apartment near 1400 Clinton St. The victim of the original shooting called 911 to report that Rodriguez-Balderrama, a 28-year-old Aurora resident, was sitting on the couch of his apartment with a gun pointed at his own head. Shots can be heard and the victim cries “Ow, he just shot me in the leg” and later reports to the dispatcher that he is hiding in a nearby apartment. Aurora officer ..read more

Marquita Mays, a Denver mom whose son drowned in a Phoenix hotel swimming pool while traveling for a football tournament two years ago, has filed a lawsuit against the team he played with. The 5280 Colorado Jr. Buffs, a football club based in Thornton, is named as the defendant in the case, along with its coach Julius Greer. Mays alleges in her complaint, filed on Tuesday in Denver District Court, that she accompanied her son Darryl Blackmon, 13, to the pool area of the Embassy Suites in Phoenix where the team was staying for a pool party to celebrate their victory in a championship game on Ma ..read more

Sheridan police officers found an adult woman who had died from an apparent gunshot wound at the 3400 block of West Dill Road early on Thursday morning. “This is an isolated incident involving a domestic violence situation. There is no immediate threat to the community and police have identified a suspect,” Sheridan Police said in a post on X. That area is a residential neighborhood to the east of Marston Lake. Additional details were not available. An active investigation is underway and more information will be provided as it becomes available, according to the Sheridan Police ..read more

A man died after police found him with a gunshot wound outside of a condo complex in the City Center North neighborhood on Tuesday night, according to the Aurora Police Department. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Partial body cam video released in Thornton police shooting that killed 2 in April Crime and Public Safety | Suspect in Aurora fatal shooting fell out of moving car before arrest, police say Crime and Public Safety | Aurora police shoot, wound man wanted in Denver attempted homicide Crime and Public Safety | ‘You have to keep fighting’: Longmont mother navigates recove ..read more