Denver Crime Report newsletter
Colorado charter school leaders failed to intervene when Black student was threatened and harassed, lawsuit claims • Denver man gets 40 years in prison for murder in wife’s shooting death
 

Thursday, October 1, 2026

 

Man fatally struck by train in Greeley initially stepped away from the tracks, police say

A train conductor blew the horn when they saw a man walking alongside the train tracks in Greeley, before the train struck and killed the man. 

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Colorado charter school leaders failed to intervene when Black student was threatened and harassed, lawsuit claims

The harassment included students showing the teen a video with racial slurs and reenacting the video in front of him.

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Denver man gets 40 years in prison for murder in wife’s shooting death

A Denver man who shot and killed his wife with his son asleep in the next room will spend the next four decades in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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RTD bus driver cited for running red light after crash in Denver’s East Colfax rapid transit lane

Two people were injured when an RTD bus ran a red light and collided with a truck on East Colfax two days after bus rapid-transit lanes opened.

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1 person hit and killed by train near Greeley

One person is dead after being hit by a train along U.S. 34 in Evans early Wednesday morning. 

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Missing 16-year-old last seen in Lakewood

Law enforcement is asking for the public’s help to find a missing 16-year-old girl who was last seen Monday in Lakewood.

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Former deputy seen shooting at Boulder County Sheriff HQ told wife he was ‘killing everyone’

When deputies detained him, Tyler Boyd Reilly, 40, struggled, kicked a deputy in the legs, threatened the deputies and their families, called them a homophobic slur and yelled at them before being taken to the ground, according to the affidavit.

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Man convicted of murder in fatal Lakewood shooting near RTD station

The fatal August 2025 shooting happened on a pedestrian path east of the Regional Transportation District’s Lakewood-Wadsworth Station, north of the light rail tracks, police said.