Suspect Arrested After Two Found Dead in University of Colorado Dorm
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A suspect was arrested on Monday on murder charges over the shootings of two people who were found dead in a dorm room last week at a University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, police said.
The Colorado Springs police department said they arrested Nicholas Jordan, 25, without incident on two counts of first-degree murder in a case involving people who knew each other, AP reported.
The victims were identified as Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, and Samuel Knopp, 24, a student at the university about 70 miles south of Denver.
After getting an arrest warrant, the police’s motor vehicle theft unit found Jordan in a car and the tactical enforcement unit arrested him, police announced on the social media platform X.
Friday’s shooting appeared to be an “isolated incident” among acquaintances, not a random attack at the school, police said. While the coroner’s office will determine how they died, each victim was shot at least once, police previously said.
The police department was called early on Friday morning about shots fired from the university’s dormitory, Creston House, where they found the Knopp and Montgomery dead.
A campus-wide lockdown was issued for 90 minutes after the shooting, and the university remained closed for the day and through the weekend. Monday classes were canceled while the school offered walk-in counseling.
The school has more than 11,000 students and nearly 2,000 faculty and staff.
