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4 police shootings in less than 48 hours leave a man dead and 3 officers injured • Colorado State University police shoot armed man ‘acting erratically’ on campus, officials say
 

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

 

Man who died with 3-year-old in Boulder-area plane crash flew for 3 hours

At 9:29 p.m, just two minutes before the plane was first reported crashed, the single-engine Diamond DA40 was about 1 mile north of Eldorado Springs and 7,375 feet above sea level, the National Transit Safety Board report says.

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4 police shootings in less than 48 hours leave a man dead and 3 officers injured

Colorado law enforcement officers have shot three people — and possibly a fourth — in less than 48 hours, leaving one man dead and three officers with gunshot wounds.

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Colorado State University police shoot armed man ‘acting erratically’ on campus, officials say

“This was not an active shooter incident,” CSU officials wrote in a campus safety update.

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Scooter rider seriously injured after crashing into a deer in Fort Collins

A man who collided with a deer while riding his scooter on Sunday night in the 2000 block of Centre Avenue in Fort Collins was left with life-threatening injuries, according to police. 

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Adams County sheriff deputy shoots person near Interstate 76

An Adams County Sheriff’s deputy shot a person near Interstate 76 and and 96th Avenue, the sheriff’s office said Monday morning.

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Man walked onto airfield at Denver International Airport, was headed toward tarmac, officials say

A person trespassed on the airfield at DIA Saturday, just five months after a 41-year-old man was struck by a plane and killed after he scaled the airport’s perimeter fence and walked into a runway.

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Thornton police officer wounded in shootout with man who remains at large

A Thornton police officer was wounded in a shootout in a residential neighborhood Sunday night and the suspect remained on the loose Monday, according to the police department.

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One man killed, two officers injured in police shootout following Pueblo home invasion

Two officers were injured and a man was killed after a shootout involving the Pueblo Police Department Saturday night, according to a news release from the department.