Further information will be released as it’s discovered. and the investigation launched from there. “We will absolutely give out more details as they become available.”Īccording to CMU Media Relations Director David Ludlam, the school’s director of campus safety contacted the GJPD shortly before 8 a.m. “Classes will be cancelled in this building, it will be closed all day as the investigation is ongoing,” Davidson said. The incident appears to be connected to damage inflicted on one of the doors of the building, possibly involving a trash can being thrown.Īccording to a statement from Davidson that Daily Sentinel Crime Reporter Gabrielle Porter read, the death has not yet been identified as homicide, suicide, or natural. The most important messages that we need to get out right now is that this victim is not believed to be a student, and that there is no ongoing threat to the safety of students or faculty on campus.” Mckenzie Moore | The CriterionĬonfluence Hall will be closed for the remainder of the day as GJPD investigates the incident. “We responded to Confluence Hall at CMU campus to investigate a death in the building. “The Grand Junction Police Department received the reporting party call at about 7:43 this morning,” Grand Junction Police Department Public Information Officer Heidi Davidson said. As of this morning, few details are known, but the victim is not believed to be a student. In July 2022, a man clutching a pointed weapon assaulted Republican candidate for New York governor Lee Zeldin - a congressman at the time - on stage at a speaking event.A death occurred in Confluence Hall at Colorado Mesa University this morning. Recent assaults on politicians or their households include the hammer-wielding attack on the husband of them-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in October 2022 at the couple’s San Francisco home. Maggie Toulouse Oliver, New Mexico secretary of state, said she was “pleased to see the federal government pursuing this case with the seriousness it deserves.”įollowing the shootings, New Mexico state lawmakers this year enacted legislation that provides felony sanctions for intimidation of election regulators and allows some public officials and political candidates to keep their home address off government websites. Police said more than a dozen shots were fired, including three that Lopez said passed through the bedroom of her sleeping daughter. Linda Lopez’s home, unfolded in the midnight hour of Jan. The final related shooting, targeting state Sen. Martínez became the Democratic state House speaker in January. FILE PHOTO - Emergency communications specialists at the Grand Junction Police Department answer 911 dispatch calls at the station. 11, more than a dozen rounds were fired at the home of Bernalillo County Commissioner Debbie O’Malley, police said. Photos by MCKENZIE LANGE/The Daily Sentinel. 4, when eight rounds were fired at the home of Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa. Charges against the three defendants include the use of an automatic weapon. Police have described Peña as the instigator of a politically motivated conspiracy leading to shootings at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators. John Anderson, an attorney for Jose Trujillo, declined to comment on the indictment when contacted Wednesday. Authorities say Demetrio Trujillo was arrested Wednesday, while they declined to comment directly on whether several unnamed accomplices in the indictment would be charged. Jose Trujillo was arrested in January on an outstanding warrant in a car with a stash of more than 800 fentanyl pills and two firearms, leading to a break in the investigation as officers traced at least one gun to bullet casings found the same day at one of the shootings. Those charges will be dismissed in deference to the federal indictment as Peña is transferred to federal custody, authorities said.įederal charges were also filed against 22-year-old Jose Louise Trujillo and 41-year-old Demetrio Trujillo on allegations that they assisted Peña in obtaining vehicles and firearms - and that they “pulled the trigger themselves to fire bullets into the homes of the victims.” Peña has been held without bail since his January arrest on charges in state district court related to the shootings. Elizabeth Honce, a defense attorney for Peña, said her client maintains his innocence.
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