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Murder suspect captured in Oro Valley
TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - A murder suspect from Colorado was arrested in Oro Valley late Tuesday, April 16. The Oro Valley Police Department said 51-year-old Francisco Ivan Romero was pulled over for a traffic stop. The officers ran Romero’s name and found out he was wanted on a murder charge in Denver.
Denver homicide suspect arrested; affidavit sealed from public view
A 51-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a March 29 homicide in Denver, police announced. Francisco Ivan Romero was arrested "with the assistance of law enforcement in Arizona," the Denver Police Department said in a news release Wednesday. He's being held on suspicion of first-degree murder. The arrest...
25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting
It’s been a quarter-century since two gunmen at Columbine High School shot and killed 12 fellow students and a teacher in suburban Denver. The traumas of that day have continued to shadow those who were there. DENVER (AP) — Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run. Twenty-five years later, and with Mendo now a mother herself, the trauma from that horrific day remains close on her heels. It caught up to her when 60 people were shot dead in 2017 at a country music festival in Las Vegas, a city she had visited a lot while working in the casino industry. Then again in 2022, when 19 students and two teachers were shot and killed in Uvalde, Texas.
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