18-year-old dead, 17-year-old wounded in shooting

A shooting Wednesday night in Aurora’s Morris Heights neighborhood left a man dead and a teenager in the hospital, police said.

Aurora officers responded to a shooting in the 3100 block of Ursula Street just before 7:20 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release from the police department.

When they arrived, officers found two people had been shot: an 18-year-old from Wheat Ridge and a 17-year-old from Denver, police said.

Paramedics took both victims to a hospital, where the 18-year-old died from his wounds, according to an update Thursday morning from Aurora police. He will be identified by the Adams County coroner’s office.

The 17-year-old is expected to survive, police said. No suspects had been identified or arrested as of Thursday afternoon.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Pedestrian killed in crash with coroner investigator who was on way to shooting

A pedestrian was struck and killed Wednesday night by an Adams County coroner’s investigator who was driving to the scene of a shooting in northwest Aurora, police said.

The coroner’s investigator was headed to a shooting in Aurora that killed a man and sent a teenager to a hospital when they crashed into a pedestrian near the intersection of East Colfax Avenue and Scranton Street, according to a news release from police. The crash happened about 10:52 p.m., approximately 3 miles from the fatal shooting in the 3100 block of Ursula Street, police said.

Investigators said the pedestrian crossing Colfax was not in the crosswalk. He later died at a hospital.

He will be identified by the Denver medical examiner’s office.

The crash investigation is ongoing, but police said they don’t believe speed was a factor.

— Lauren Penington, The Denver Post

Driver hits RTD train in Five Points neighborhood

A driver crashed into a Regional Transportation District L-Line train in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood after running a stop sign Thursday afternoon, agency officials said.

The crash happened near 26th and Welton streets about 2:53 p.m., Denver police said.

No serious injuries were reported. L-Line service was suspended until about 3:40 p.m, RTD officials said.

Denver police are investigating the crash.

— Katie Langford, The Denver Post