Guilty. The verdict today againt
Leticia Stock, the woman from
Colorado Springs who murdered hr
11 year old stepson Gannon in 2.
Well, the trial took more than a month.
The jury needed only 7 hours ovr
2 days to come to their decisio.
Our Nine News, Crime and Justice
reporter Matt Jablo was there ie
courtroom as the verdict was red
three years after she killed
her stepson in cold blood.
A crime whose brutality and senselessness.
Shocked countless people in Colo
and throughout the country.
Leticia Stout showed absolutely no emotion
from the judge in her murder tr.
Read the jury's verdict. We, the jury
find the defendant, Leticia Sto,
guilty of Count #1 Murder
in the first degree.
After deliberation on January 2,
2020, Stout shot, stabbed and kd
her 11 year old stepson Gannon n
their home in Colorado Springs.
She then put his body in the suitcase,
drove to Florida and tossed it over a bridge.
Prosecutor said Stock was
trying to hurt her husband,
whom she was planning to leave.
But Stout's attorney said she ws
legally insane when she brutally attacked
Gannon and therefore should be d
not guilty by reason of insanit.
Clearly, the jury disagreed.
I am Landon
Gannon's mom, and that will
never change through my hurt,
anger and pain. I will never be
the monster that she is. After
Stout was found guilty and befoe
Judge Gregory Werner sentenced r
to the mandatory life in prison
without the possibility of paro,
Gannon's parents described the
anguish caused by his death.
I never in my wildest dreams wod
have ever thought you'd be in danger,
buddy or no, I would not have left you
at home with what turned out to
be your murderer and the last
person never see you on Earth
in Colorado Springs. Matt Jablo, 9 News
Leticia Stock chose not to speak
during today's proceedings.
Now she again facing that maximm
sentence of life in prison
without the possibility of paroe
for the first time since a
student shot 2 Deans at East
High School about six weeks ago.
We hear from one of the shooting victims,
Dean Wayne Mason.
Talks about what happened that ,
the day that a 17 year old tooks
own life while running from pol.
Nine News reporter Katie Eastman
joins us from Mason.
Just finished speaking.
And Katie, it sounds like
we're hearing a very different
account about what actually
happened that morning.
Yeah, we absolutely are.
First of all, Dean Wayne Mason d
us that weeks before the shooti,
another student saw Austin Lyle with a gun
and when staff was going to search him,
he ran out of this school.
On the day of the shooting,
Wayne Mason said Austin was alld
back in and despite calls to the
assistant principal and securit.
There were no answers,
and so Wayne's fellow Dean,
Eric Sinclair brought Austin
back to their office.
Then Wayne says Eric called forp
and he found Austin and Eric wrestling.
At that point, he said,
Austin fired several shots,
hitting both Deans.
Then Austin stood up,
pointed his gun toward them and,
Wayne said He grabbed towels ant
pressure on Eric's wounds and prayed.
He is thankful there were params
in the other room later that da.
We know Austin took his own lif.
Wayne wishes he could tell
his former student one thing.
The moment Austin pulled
that trigger, I forgave him.
The regret that I have right now
is that he is not here for me to
tell him that, and I wish he wa.
And I just want his parents to
know that I do forgive Austin
for what happened that day.
We have not yet heard from the
second Dean who was shot that d,
Eric Sinclair, And despite offis
previously telling us that the
Deans were patting down Austin,
Wayne Mason insists that never happened.
That is not what was happening
when they were shot, Wayne says.
There need to be procedures
in place so that something
like this can't happen again.
Well, he's certainly told a very
different version of what happe.
But what a powerful message
he sent to those parents.
And in just describing everything and
how it happened.
Yeah, it's the first time we're hearing
this weeks after this happening.
I think everybody here was
just listening so intently.
And when he said that he forgave Austin,
that was an incredibly powerful moment.
Yeah. Well,
everybody needs to listen
to him, especially as they
talk about the changes that
are coming. Thank you, Katie.
Let's take a live lookout from e
Elitch cameras. Elitches is ope.
Did you know that? I did
not know it is. Oh, it's good to know.
And this last weekend would
have been a good weekend.
It would have been nice.
There's few clouds out there rit
now and it kind of looks like
something's happening somewhere. Yeah,
Kathy, a lot of sunshine today,
but one of those Colorado
afternoons who might think,
see, things change pretty soon.
You know what, it looks like
it's going to be active you guy,
but it's pretty quiet out there.
Only isolated storms to worry at
just to the east of Denver tonight and
that'll be the case again tomor.
The weather becomes more activen
Wednesday and probably even into Thursday.
So to start off the week with
sunshine and mid 70s, there's se
beautiful cumulus clouds out th.
Yeah, there may be an isolated
rain shower earlier.
Rumble of Thunder, severe weather threat,
very low today across Colorado
we had some snow over the weeked
over some of the higher peaks.
Is beautiful there now and 70 currently.
In Denver, 81.
In Lamar, 71.
In Eagle, 63 in Steamboat winds
have been picking up a little b.
You saw Katie shot there out
of the South and we'll kind of
watch that S to southeast flow,
bringing in a little bit of
humidity but not enough to make
a dent in the high fire danger.
Red flag warnings continue throh
tomorrow evening for the western
and southern suburbs of Denver.
I-25 down to the New Mexico line
for winds to 30 and relative
humidity value as low as 10%.
We have winds ramping up out ofe
South ahead of a weather systemt
will cross the state in about 48 hours.
First time tonight,
The best chance for rain will
be in the next couple of hours.
We can see really just isolated
activity along this line that
extends from just north of Coloo
Springs out to the South of Sterling.
Storms are moving pretty quickly
off to the east and northeast,
coming off the foothills.
Pretty typical springtime weathr
pattern that we're looking at rt
here and the severe weather we'e
really watching for Saint Louisd
areas West of Dallas and Houston tonight.
Denver's really in that general
thunderstorm category and that's
what we're seeing on future.
Your cast skies will clear toni.
We get a sunny day tomorrow,
the warmest day of the week,
coming up with highs near 80.
And so we'll talk all about that
with the extended forecast,
which does include the potentiar
some thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday.
OK. It is May. It is May.
Yesterday I was driving
and literally for like,
I am half a mile.
It rained and that stopped.
Yep, that was it.
It was weird. And
then like some places down Sout,
my house, not a drop, you know,
would have loved to see some ra.
So Yep, Call
on the table though, this month.
All right. Thank you, Kathy.
We'll see you in a few minutes.
The former Tattered Cover CEO as well as
a former Denver Denver mayoral candidate,
Kwame Spearman, announced today
that he'll be running for DPS is
at large board seat this Novemb.
The only seat up for grabs this
year is held by the incumbent bd
Vice President Ayonte Anderson,
whose progressive ideology class
with Spearman's center right politics.
That caused some friction with Tattered
Cover customers during his mayol
campaign for Spearman was one o7
candidates on the ballot runninr
Denver mayor in the election cye
before dropping out on March 16.
In April, Spearman stepped down
as the CEO of Tattered Cover to
focus more on politics.
We now know the names of four
people who died in a plane crash
in Teller County over the weeke.
Bruce Claremont, Lori, Lori Abe,
Roger and Katherine Duncan,
all from Florence, Co,
were killed Saturday night when their plane
crashed near the Fremont County line.
The Sheriff's Office said they
first heard about the crash Suny
morning when another pilot spotd
the plane and called it in.
The FAA says the plane was flyig
from Fremont County Airport
to Centennial Airport.
Governor Polis's controversial
land use bill has been resurrec.
Now it's going back to
the state Senate today.
Originally, the bill was going o
give the state more power over zoning
by forcing certain cities and ts
to allow denser forms of housin.
Right now, those things are
determined on a local level.
It's even been an issue for local control.
The bill's supporters argue that the changes
are necessary to try to sustain growth.
The Senate gutted the land use
bill the last time they read it,
removing the density requiremens
and focusing on forming a state
board to assess affordable housg
needs and future plans.
House Democrats sent the bill back to
the Senate after re adding densy
requirements and other aspects t
have been cut out the first tim.
So now the Senate trying to
consider those amendments.
And this is the last day of
Colorado's first legislative session.
As it wraps up,
here's where things stand,
according to the state Office
of Legislative Legal Services.
There were 617 bills introduced
over the session and of those b,
180 have become law with only one becoming
law without the governor's signature.
More than 70 are waiting to be signed.
The State of Colorado and U.S.
Department of Agriculture teamip
to encourage farmers to conserve water,
they revealed and signed a new
agreement at the State Capitol today.
The agreements goal is to get
farmers to use less water while
still keeping up production.
And making sure rural
communities that rely on
agriculture to feel their
economy don't suffer. Democratic Senators
John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennett
talked about the importance of e
agreement when it comes to meeting climate
goals and appealing to the people who
have worked this land for generations.
We have to give farmers and ranchers more
flexibility to conserve water and fairly
compensate them as we face a 1200 year
mega drought across the American West.
And give them the chance to be able to
pass their farms and their ranches Nick,
to the next generation of Color.
This agreements part of the USDA's larger
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program,
which is aimed at curbing climate change.