Cold-Case: $100,000 Reward Offered for Info on Valentine’s Day Murder of Teenage Couple
A reward of $100,000 is offered by Colorado officials for information leading to the suspect(s) in relation to the Valentine’s Day double murder of a teenage couple decades ago.
Metro Denver Crime Stoppers announced the major reward increase in a statement 21 years after “high school sweethearts” Nicholas Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell were found shot dead on Feb. 14, 2000, inside a Subway sandwich shop in Littleton, Colorado, leaving the community shocked.
“With this significantly increased reward, people who haven’t come forward with their information will be much more likely to do so now,” Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said.
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Colorado officials are offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information related to the decades-old cold case double murder of teenage high school sweethearts at a Subway restaurant.
Metro Denver Crime Stoppers announced the six-figure reward on Sunday – the 21st anniversary of the slayings – as investigators push forward with efforts to find the person or people who gunned down Nicholas Nick Kunselman and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell in Littleton, Colo., just blocks from Columbine High School.
The reward was increased from the previously offered $12,000, local affiliate FOX 31 reported.
Richard Gene Hammond was found dead from a gunshot wound on Feb. 14, 2017. Author: Nate Lynn Updated: 4:03 PM MST February 14, 2021
DENVER Four years have passed since the Valentine s Day death of Richard Gene Hammond, and Denver police are still looking for the killer.
According to Metro Denver Crime Stoppers, the 63-year-old grandfather and retired Marine major left his home near Bruce Randolph Avenue and York Street to go to his job in Fountain on Feb. 14, 2017.
He left between 3:30-4 a.m. that day, driving his 2012 Subaru Impreza sedan, Crime Stoppers said.
He never did arrive at work, and was discovered along with his car less than half a mile from his house, according to Crime Stoppers. He was dead from a gunshot wound, Crime Stoppers said.
Exactly 21 years after the crime, officials are offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the murder of two Littleton teenagers on Valentine’s Day in 2000.
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When officers arrived at the scene, APD said, they found Brown dead with gunshot wounds in a vehicle. He was 59, his family said.
APD is asking anyone with information about the incident to call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.
Metro Denver Crime Stoppers works by assigning a code to people who anonymously submit a tip. Information is shared with law enforcement, and Crime Stoppers is notified at the conclusion of the investigation.
From there, an awards committee reviews the information provided and, if the information leads to an arrest, the tipster will be notified. Rewards can be collected using the code numbers received when the tip was originally submitted.