Colorado Springs police Monday morning arrested a suspect within the killings of two individuals who had been discovered fatally shot three days earlier in a College of Colorado Colorado Springs dorm room.
Nicholas Jordan, 25, faces two counts of first-degree homicide, the division mentioned in a publish on X, formally often called Twitter.
Police discovered Jordan, of Detroit, inside a automobile simply earlier than 8 a.m. Monday about three miles from the faculty campus and he was taken into custody “with out incident,” the division mentioned.
Investigators had been actively looking for Jordan since issuing an arrest warrant Friday night, police mentioned.
“Investigative efforts proceed to point this was an remoted incident between people who had been identified to at least one one other and never a random assault in opposition to the varsity or different college students on the college,” the division mentioned in its publish.
Police didn’t launch any info on potential motive within the deadly shootings.
Police recognized the 2 folks killed within the Friday taking pictures as 24-year-old Samuel Knopp of Parker and 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery of Pueblo. Knopp was at the moment a registered pupil at UCCS, although Montgomery was not, CSPD mentioned.
Knopp was a senior finding out music and a “beloved member” of the visible and performing arts division, the college mentioned.
Campus police discovered each our bodies in a dorm room shortly after 6 a.m. after receiving a name about photographs fired within the Crestone Home, a dorm on campus.
Police are investigating each deaths as homicides and have mentioned every particular person had been shot at the least as soon as. The El Paso County Coroner’s Workplace will decide the way of demise, pending toxicology outcomes.
The college was positioned on a short lockdown following the taking pictures. Officers canceled courses and common actions Monday and supplied assist providers for its college students and college.
