Colleen Slevin, Associated Press
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Prosecutors urged jurors to convict a former Colorado sheriff's deputy of murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man in distress.
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The aftershocks — often unacknowledged in the years before mental health struggles were more widely recognized — led to some survivors suffering insomnia, dropping out of school, or disengaging from their spouses or families. But some have developed healthy ways to cope with the shadow of that horrific day through therapy and the support from an expanding group of fellow mass shooting survivors.
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The mother of an autistic boy shown being hit and punched by a school bus aide released a copy of bus surveillance video. Jessica Vestal says she suspects the kind of abuse that went undetected against her son is also happening to other children who, like him, can't speak and report what happened to them.
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A former Colorado police officer is on trial over the violent arrest of a Black man in 2021. The man, Kyle Vinson, was the first person to take the witness stand as testimony began Tuesday against former Aurora police officer John Haubert. Vinson testified that he felt like he might die after mistakenly believing Haubert had accused him of having a gun.
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A former Colorado police officer is on trial over the violent arrest of a Black man in 2021. Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the case of former Aurora police officer John Haubert.
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A 78-year-old woman who sued two police officers after her home was wrongly searched by a SWAT team looking for a stolen truck has won a $3.8 million jury verdict. The verdict for Ruby Johnson announced Monday came in a lawsuit brought under a new Colorado law that allows people to sue police over violations of their state constitutional rights.
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Lawyers for a man who was Tasered while handcuffed is settling a federal lawsuit with a Colorado sheriff's department for $1.5 million. Attorneys announced the deal Monday in the case of Kenneth Espinoza, who was arrested after he stopped to wait for his son when he was pulled over in Trinidad, Colorado, in 2022.
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A former Colorado police officer is appealing his conviction by a jury for his role in the death of Eljiah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being stopped by police in a Denver suburb in 2019. Lawyers for Randy Roedema filed a notice of appeal with the state appeals court on Wednesday.
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Denver police say the body of a woman who died in 2022 and the cremated remains of about 30 people were found at a rental house in Denver after a former funeral home owner was evicted from the property.
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Members of a mental health response team sent to help a man who was having a "psychotic breakdown" instead killed him by tackling him and leaving him handcuffed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by his family. The lawsuit over the 2022 death of Kevin Dizmang in Colorado Springs was filed against the team's paramedic and a police officer.