We know a couple of people have been infected with the zika virus but officials said they traveled to countries that had home. Both have spontaneously recovered. Zika virus is spread by the mosquitoe in the tropical and subtropical areas. It would be spread by the tiger mosquitoe, as well that lives in the north, but it doesnt live in this area either. Colorado has information about the zika virus on its website and has a map that shows outbreaks. If you are traveling to those country, exercise caution and protect yourself against mosquitoes. If you are pregnant, you should not be traveling to those countries, at all, because there have been reported cases of birth defects, women pregnant, were seen in their newborn infants. There have also been reported cases of paralysis, but Health Officials say in most instances, zika virus simply causes a fever, rash and joint pain. It lasts about a week, then most people spontaneously recover and have an immunity that lasts a lifetime. Still, the
Case and stealing his car. Police are on the lookout this morning for a 1998 green ford escort. We have the license plate for you. Qkl 268. It all happened issue in the 2500 block of pierce. This is near 25th. Right on the border of lakewood and edgewater. One man was shot and taken to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. The two suspects are still on the loose. That car is still missing. Now, not a lot of details on what type of meetup or ad this may have been about. Police say, though, it may have not been the legal sort. Of course, Law Enforcement asking all people if you are meeting a stranger on the interpret, exchanging cash or goods, to obviously keep an eye out, maybe come with someone, or use extra caution. Coming up in just a little bit, we will share with you, though, how some Law Enforcement agencies are actually stepping up to create safe zones where you know if incident like this and this will not happen to you. Coming up on 7news. Reporting live, Jason Gruena
Had to be towed away from that scene. Now, to breaking news tonight, a shakeup at the park county sheriffs department. Just a week after a man killed a deputy and wounded two others. Happened as they served an eviction notice. Political activist martin wirth. He killed nate carrigan. We know the undersheriff has been placed on leave, and a sergeant demoted can then resigned. Cbs4 investigator brian maass with exclusive details and this is an enormous fallout from the incident. The park county sheriff took action. Moving to demote one, veteran sergeant. Senior sergeant t wells was being denoted to the rank of deputy, and he resigned the same day. Monday. Tonight, the sheriff told me the demotion was related to the oversielth in the handle oversight in the handling of the incident. The sheriff says this was he declined to provide other details. He believed he was a scapegoat for what happened and he says he doesnt know why he was being demoted. The sheriff places undersheriff monte gore
You may want a warmer jacket to start the day. We are in the 60s with mostly sunny skies. We have copter 4. Look how many cars we have got out there. All of them are running slowly. It is wishing their car could fly too. Taking a look at 270 and york as well from our camera. You head southbound coming into town. That is a slow drive. S on railroad average speed 50 Miles Per Hour. You get your traffic every ten minutes on the tens. A shooting involve ago craigslist ad. It ended at west 20th we are this is last nights incidents started out with a car chase that ended near where im standing at 20th and aims. This was the outcome of the chase last night. It ended around 11 00 and denver place say they spotted the suspects and ended up having to do a pit maneuver. An officer confirmed they were connected to the craigslist shooting. All three transported to the hospital as a result of injuries sustained in the chase. They found one man had been shot and he along with another man arrived at t
Action. Moving to demote one, veteran sergeant. Senior sergeant t wells was being denoted to the rank of deputy, and he resigned the same monday. Tonight, the sheriff told me the demotion was related to the oversielth in the handle oversight in the handling of the incident. The sheriff says this was something we had to address. He declined to provide other details. He believed he was a scapegoat for what happened and he says he doesnt know why he was being demoted. The sheriff places undersheriff monte gore on paid administrative leave. There were some problems, with the way gore notified corporate carrigans father about his death. The suspension was a result of a series of events and administrative actions that were done incorrectly. According to the sheriff. He declined to elaborate. Weve not been able to reach the all of this as planned for the funeral of carrigan. So unfortunate that this is happening now and probably not the end of the story. You bet. Developing tonight, a standof