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.
Early on Valentine s Day 2000, Nick Kunselman, fifteen, and Stephanie Hart-Grizzell, sixteen, were murdered at a Subway restaurant near Columbine High School. More than two decades later, the case remains unsolved but that could change. The reward for information leading to the arrest of the individual or individuals who committed this crime, which had been bumped up to $12,000 on February 14, 2020, has now been increased almost tenfold, to $100,000.
According to Denver Metro Crime Stoppers, the increase was powered in part by members of the community who wish to remain anonymous, as well as a $10,000 contribution from Franchise World Headquarters LLC, the corporate entity that encompasses Subway.
Reward increased to $100,000 in 2000 murders of two young Columbine students
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and last updated 2021-02-15 09:19:30-05
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. â Twenty one years ago on Valentineâs Day, Stephanie Hart-Grizzell drove to a Subway on Coal Mine Avenue to wait for her boyfriend, Nick Kunselman, who was finishing his shift at the sandwich shop.
The two teenagers were students at Columbine High School, where less than a year earlier 12 of their classmates and a teacher had been killed in a mass shooting. But the high school sweethearts weathered the aftermath together, family members said, and were a happy young couple.