The victim and suspect had a confrontation on an RTD bus Sunday evening, police said. Author: Darren Whitehead Updated: 4:00 PM MST February 1, 2021
DENVER A 17-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot Sunday evening.
The Denver Police Department (DPD) said the suspect confronted the victim on an Regional Transportation District (RTD) bus before the shooting.
The shooting happened just after 5 p.m. after the victim and suspect got off the bus near North Peoria Street and East Allbrook Drive in the Montbello neighborhood in northeast Denver, police said.
The suspect is described as being in his late teens to early 20s, police said. He had dreadlocked hair with blonde or gold tips, and was wearing a white Champion hooded sweatshirt with grey and black shoes, according to police.
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After celebrating a successful art exhibition showcasing his work in Denver, CO artist Raverro Stinnett sat at Union Station waiting for his train home. Shortly after sitting down, an Allied security guard informed Raverro that he could not sit in the seemingly public Great Hall and told Raverro to follow him to another location. That guard, James Hunter, a supervisor with Allied Universal, lured Raverro into a bathroom away from any security cameras where he proceeded to beat him with leather studded gloves while three other Allied security guards stood watch. They left him without medical assistance.
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Montgomery: The state is getting roughly half as much COVID-19 vaccine as it was expecting based on federal plans announced last year, officials said Friday, meaning it would take more than two years to vaccinate the adult population without improvement. The state has 800 approved vaccination sites and is trying to deliver shots as quickly as it can, but supply issues have been the biggest hindrance to state vaccination efforts, said Dr. Scott Harris, head of the Alabama Department of Public Health. “Every state had the idea that they were going to get much more vaccine than they ultimately got,” he said. “I assume this is related to optimistic projections and the inability of manufacturers to keep up that. … There just wasn’t enough vaccine to go around.” Alabama health officials were expecting to get more th
DENVER (AP) — The Regional Transportation District in Colorado has halted layoffs for about 250 employees after it received more than $200 million from a $900 billion federal coronavirus relief
New RTD boss questions wisdom of long-promised Boulder train
New RTD head Debra Johnson is questioning if an extension of the B Line from Westminster to Longmont now estimated to cost $1.5 billion is the best option. Author: Nathaniel Minor (Colorado Public Radio News) Published: 2:33 PM MST January 16, 2021 Updated: 2:35 PM MST January 16, 2021
BOULDER, Colo. Elected officials in the Boulder region have grumbled ever since the Regional Transportation District (RTD) delayed its rail line from Denver to Longmont.
RTD promised the line in 2004 as part of the voter-approved FasTracks program, but rising costs have delayed the project by decades. The agency s staff leaders and elected board have pledged the line will be built when the agency can afford it probably sometime around 2050.