These thick looking storm clouds
came in fast over Fort Collins today.
Time lapse from Horse Tooth Reservoir.
This system is bringing lightning,
Thunder, rain and snow in some spots.
Just your average spring
Colorado storm. This is
I-70 near Lookout Mountain.
Tonight we're gonna get straight to
Danielle in the backyard where the
rain is really coming down. Danielle,
it has been Kim for about
the past two hours or so.
It's beginning to let up just a little bit,
but still parts in the metro area
looking at incredibly heavy rain.
Still kind of some nice sleeping
weather to say the least.
That storm system is slowly
shifting to the South.
You'll notice that cold front sagging
just to the South of Colorado Springs.
Probably felt those strong winds earlier
this afternoon As we zoom in here to
the city can still see that range.
Showers falling across the city
just to our S however little
slightly cooler temperatures push
in and we are looking at snow.
Some pretty heavy snowfall
around Castle Rock Larkspur,
further to the South toward Monument Hill,
where we do have a winter weather
advisory in place Until tomorrow morning.
I want to take you through
the futurecast here.
We're about 11:00 o'clock.
Still light rain showers for Denver,
but everywhere to the South,
looking at light snow by 6:00.
O'clock, however, the storm system.
Is long gone.
It's fast,
it's furious and it's out of
there making way for some sunshine
in the afternoon for us.
Few clouds off to the northeastern
plains by your Friday evening.
As we look at the forecast for the
rest of tonight into early tomorrow,
it's all about the rain here in the city.
But just to the South that's we're going
to find the messy roads and a bit of snow.
All eyes ahead toward the weekend and I
have a really nice warm up on the way.
I'll show you my 7 day forecast
in about 10 minutes.
Thanks, Danielle. No one was hurt
after a shooting near the Denver Zoo.
This happened this afternoon.
DPD responded to shots fired
near 22nd Ave. and Colorado Blvd.
just up the street from the
Museum of Nature and Science.
Police say people on motorcycles were
involved and a car was hit by gunfire,
but they didn't clarify how many
people or how many shots were fired.
Officers attempted to pull over the suspects,
which turned into a chase.
Police say one person was
eventually arrested near Green
Valley Ranch and Pena Blvd.
Police are still investigating as
to what led up to that shooting.
We are learning more tonight about
the people who were killed at a
restaurant in Denver this week.
Coroner's office says 34 year
old Emeril Vaughn Dayler,
53 year old Ignacio Gutierrez Morales
were the people who were shot dead.
Happened Monday afternoon at
American Elm W 38th near Tennyson
9 News Reporter Jennifer Meckel
spoke with Emeril's family today.
Yes, Emeril bought the family photo shoot
as a Christmas present for my parents.
And thanks to Emeril, these
family memories are preserved.
This is the whole family together. Here, her
siblings Matt, Erin and Danica.
There's mom and sisters.
This is my one of my favorites.
The way she looks at mom,
it's tough to see these photos now.
A family with somebody missing.
I just can't wrap my head around
why it happened and to her.
Of all people, police
have released very little about the shooting,
which happened Monday afternoon at the
restaurant where Ignatio and Emeril worked.
She was the general manager,
her family says, always serving others how
selfless and genuine she was.
She's the last person that ever
deserved something like this,
and for this to happen to her, I just.
I don't. I'm just mad. Both
victims had families.
These three remember the day that
Emeril married her husband Andrew.
August 18th.
Matt officiated the ceremony.
Aaron and Danica served as
maids of honor and they're
devastated for Michael,
who calls Emeril mom.
They have families, they have lives.
They were loved by all,
and it's just not fair in this,
this violence.
It's just shouldn't have happened.
And that's all.
That's all we want is for who did this to.
Be caught and punished for
taking the most beautiful person
I've ever known away from me.
There's several efforts to raise
money for the victim's families,
including college funds for Emerald's son.
She used to work for New Image Brewing,
and on Monday night,
the Old Town Arvada location is hosting
a benefit for Emerald's family.
Tonight, the Aurora School Board picked
that district's new Superintendent.
Board selected Michael
Giles as the sole finalist.
He's Cherry Creek Schools
assistant Superintendent of equity,
culture and community.
It's one of several administration
jobs he's had at Cherry Creek.
The district will now start negotiating
his new contract with the goal of
voting on it as soon as possible.
Aurora's outgoing Superintendent,
Rico Mon,
is leaving after a decade on the job.
He's going to CSU to be chief of
staff to the new university president.
They wanted a new start.
After the Marshall Fire interrupted
their lives for 10 months,
a family in Lewisville was forced
out of their home while working
on smoke damage.
So you decided to put their
money toward a remodel.
Hope of a fresh start quickly vanished.
And that family is not alone.
Here's 9 News reporter Katie Eastman
St. after St. The promise of
progress is seen and heard.
But as homes are rebuilt and remodeled
more than a year after the Marshall fire,
that progress isn't the same for everyone.
I felt very confused.
A remodel sits unfinished
at this Lewisville home,
long after it was damaged by smoke.
The people doing the work now aren't the
ones who were initially paid to do it.
In the fall of 2022,
CR Contracting came in to remodel
the kitchen and bathroom.
And so I really felt
like I'd won the lottery.
I felt like our luck was
changing and I was so excited.
And this was supposed to
be like this good thing,
you know, this good thing.
After a really hard year,
the pair paid CR Contracting
more than $175,000.
They don't know where.
The money went correct.
I paid them 95% of the total project
felt like a trauma
all over again.
Now they don't even want to show their
faces for fear of becoming victims again.
For once, nobody's complaining
about the noise we're making.
The owner of CR Contracting, Bob Blanke,
talked to us last year when he switched
up his business model to do more work.
For people impacted by the Marshall fire,
the problems began when the excavation
work ended and Bob started doing
remodels again in the summer.
A dozen homeowners in Boulder and
Broomfield counties told us they
later found out money they paid to
Bob never went to workers he hired.
There's too many emotions right now.
I'm I'm, I'm mad as hell, you know,
David, Jared and Lance.
We're all hired by CR Contracting
to do different jobs at this
Lewisville home and about
a dozen others in the area.
Paint, flooring, framing, drywall.
We were supposed to do the tile but
didn't get paid so we didn't come back.
Amount I have invoiced right now is 22,500.
Right now we're at a little over 15,000.
For for what's owed on the rough,
the balance is right around 40,000 tens
of thousands of dollars.
These subcontractors say Bob
Blancki owes them Broomfield Police.
Say he owes more than
$200,000 to 19 victims.
Yeah, we feel very vulnerable. But the
trauma didn't end with an unfinished project.
Homeowners Learn subcontractors weren't
paid when the workers sent notices to them
saying they might put a lien on their home.
I mean, this is the type of thing that can
affect people financially for for years.
By staying anonymous, this couple hopes
they can avoid more subcontractors
using their home as collateral
and so. We are now looking like the
bad guys because we are trying to
protect ourselves and the same token,
we are trying to protect them
and and hoping that these liens
help trigger a chain reaction for
more people to show their faces,
for more people like us to come forward,
because I think the story should be told.
Please record your message.
Bob hasn't responded to the multiple
ways we've reached out. Hi, this
is Katie. Oh, hi, Kitty.
Bob had mentioned that you
had wanted to talk to me, but
his bankruptcy and debt negotiation
lawyer, David Seraphin gave us a call.
You know, Bob wanted me to
mention that he's trying,
not trying to avoid anybody.
He's not trying to run from anybody.
He's trying to make everything right.
He's trying to get everybody paid.
In a letter sent to us from his lawyer,
Bob wrote that he's sorry and
that construction is a tough
business that has become impossible
to execute successfully.
He added he plans to liquidate assets
and partially settle accounts.
These homeowners
paid him this money to go into
places like where did it go if it
didn't go toward their projects
or to the subcontractors? Right.
And and I can't comment on that,
but I can't say that that this person, Mr.
Blanc, is not a person who,
you know, who lives a lavish life. I
want to ask Bob where
his integrity is.
As these homeowners go into debt.
They wonder about what could
have been. We were easy
new customers to say yes and to
believe in the promise of what he
could offer. Progress stopped.
By a broken promise, I
felt like this
was our investment in taking care
of ourselves and they were not
able to follow through on that.
And that is what I feel most devastated by.
Katie Eastman, 9 news.
The subcontractors Katie talked
to suggested a way to protect
yourself from a similar situation.
Ask the people doing work in your
home if they're getting paid.
Don't just trust that the general
contractor is paying them.
They were issues for several months
before the homeowners were aware.
Bob Blakey's attorney said
that he's advised him to file
for Chapter 13 bankruptcy,
pay back what he can through that process.