When you're 12
years old, you make wrong decis.
But that wrong decision to
steal a car cost a boy's life,
and his father wants the man who killed
his son to be brought to justic.
It is beyond cloudy outside anda
little bit smoky out there too,
along with fog, which may be
making the situation even that
much worse. Other animals are pg
the price for the efforts to ged
of all the bugs that are emerging now.
The father of a 12 year old boy killed in a
shootout over a stolen car wants Denver
police to release more evidence in the case.
A man killed the boy when he trd
down his stolen car and exchangd
gunfire with people inside.
Elias Armstrong, the 6th grader,
was in the driver seat. Tonight.
His father speaks with investige
reporter Jeremy Kohola,
and we're also hearing new audio
in a case that remains open.
1230 Decatur St. Party Shop How does a
12 year old who should be doing 12 year
old things like video games and homework
end up with a gunshot wound whin
the driver's seat of a stolen c?
Doctors pronounced Elias Armstrg
dead at the hospital. This
is all I have of my son. What
do you say to people who are
unsympathetic to your son's case? Who?
Say, well, he was in a stolen c.
This is what happened. When
you're 12 years old, you make
wrong decisions and at that age,
being in the stolen car is actuy
one wrong decision that you can make.
At 12 years old, Thomas
Armstrong believes his son should have
never been killed over a stolen car. I
would like lies to be able to gt
some real justice out of this c.
His life is not coming back.
Flashback to February 5th.
A man at the Northfield shopping
center steps outside and
notices his black Audi is gone.
8390 is Northfield said that his
vehicle was stolen from the lot.
He just keeps calling back,
getting updated locations.
The car owner, a 35 year old ma,
tells police he had weapons ands
going to intercept the car thies
if police didn't retrieve his c.
He was tracking on a nap.
Dispatch audio echoes what's
described in court documents,
even pull a gun on the suspect.
Audio also affirms what police told the man.
Stay put.
They're advising the RP Stand Northfield.
About an hour and a half later,
video captures the deadly encour
between the man and Elias Armst.
Car pulls up.
The man dashes out party firing the gun.
Smoke from gunfire got out of c.
He's firing and it looks like bh
parties are now firing at each other.
The man claims he did not shoot first.
He has no business being able to
cross the line and act like an
officer and be able to track his
car down and with a firearm. The
autopsy report says a bullet
entered Elias's arm and chest.
He weighed 74 pounds.
Notify homicide. Same number.
We are not naming the car.
Owner The District Attorney has
said he will not be charged bece
a conviction is unlikely. Every
day I wake up I I feel like it'a
nightmare I'm missing and I'm so sorry
and how much I'm going to fight to try
to get him the justice that he deserves.
Denver police have denied releag
body camera footage in this cas,
saying they need to protect
the privacy of the car owner.
They also say they can't release
it because this case involves A
juvenile who's been identified.
The agency, along with the District Attorney,
has declined an interview about this case,
citing the open investigation.
Well, it's a it's a story I thie
all remember well and we were surprised
by the age of of. The young boy.
And it does raise a lot of questions. Yeah.
Raises a lot of questions.
And eventually, if the body cama
footage does come out and may reveal more
how this man interacted with police an
hour and a half before this happened.
Yeah. Thank you, Jeremy.
The family of an East High Schol
student gunned down outside the
school says they want answers,
accountability and action aftere
death of Luis Garcia earlier this year.
OK.
I wouldn't want anybody
else to be in our place.
Santos Garcia is Luis's father.
He returned to East High School today for
the first time since his son was killed.
Santos says when he saw a DPD SV
parked in front of the school t,
he couldn't help but think that kind of
security might have saved his son's life.
At the time of Luis's death,
DPD did not have school resource
officers posted at schools.
Louise's sister and Jovanna says
she believes the adults in the
school district failed her brot.
How can I even think about healg
or trying to be OK knowing this
could happen again when there cd
be another family in our situat?
The family has filed a notice
of claim intending to sue the
school district and school
board in Louise's death.
Denver police say the investigan
to his murder remains open and
no one has been arrested. Sunday
is now the final day you can
give input about Draft one of te
Denver Public School Safety Pla.
Students, parents and staff are asked
to provide feedback on the DPS website.
The second draft will be
released on May 26th.
We expect the final plan by
the end of next month.
OK, if you gone outside
or looked outside today,
you get to see so much because
there's so much smoke in the ai.
There's an air quality alert in
effect for a lot of the metro a,
at least through tomorrow.
We also had some of the worst
air quality in the world today.
The smoke is coming from
the nearly 100 wildfires.
Burning right now in Alberta,
Canada and here's how it
looks over Coors Field.
You can see it's still pretty hazy out there.
We also see Corey Ruppenhagen ad
we're going to talk a little bit about
the health impact this may have.
Corey's joining us now.
Some of the haze is fog as well,
but some of it's smoke.
Yeah, exactly.
We're seeing a little bit of bo.
And the wildfire smoke is not
thick enough on its low on it
by itself to block out the sun.
So the fact that we don't see
an outline of the sun tells you
that there is also some really
thick clouds involved as well.
But take a look at the
Denver skyline right now.
Or maybe you would call it
the lack of the skyline.
It's really shrouded in that cl,
in that smoke,
and maybe a little bit of fog still as well,
but it smells like smoke,
and even the color of the
sky is a little smoky.
But what's interesting is that
the fog doesn't only make the
pollution look worse,
but it may also be having an
impact on the pollution itself.
You know what makes this really?
An even worse situation is a lot
of times when you have a lot of
moisture in the air that can actually
increase the amount of what we
call PM 2.5 or fine particulate,
and that's what wildfire smoke
is made-up of. Air
quality forecaster Scott Landiss
the biggest concern is for people with
lung diseases like asthma or CO,
also the elderly and the
developing lungs of children.
But Friday's air quality index s
above 150 in the Denver metro,
which means anyone could experie
respiratory problems last.
Last year, the air quality
index only broke 151 time.
That was for summer ozone pollu.
The forecast is for this
smoke to stick around.
This particle pollution computer model
shows future smoke shaded in gr.
It's very likely that the smokel
still be thick on Saturday morn.
Now I think there's at least the
potential for some gradual improvement
during the day on Saturday.
I think we're going to see a bit
more in the way of some thunderstorms
around Saturday afternoon,
which could be helpful.
So Landis says that the low levl
moisture like this fog may actuy
amplify the effects of the pollution.
But the thunderstorms are a lite
different because you get the
rising air from the thunderstors
and also there's a lot of wind
blowing beneath the thunderstor.
So we're not expecting a widespd
thunderstorm event tomorrow,
but we might just get enough tot
some of this wildfire smoke mov.
Yeah, well, I mean, great news
considering bad air quality is t
conducive to great marathon wea.
So hopefully we do get
some rain. Corey, thank you.
C dot crews are doing emergency
work to stabilize the slope that
washed out along part of US285
in the Paramalee Gulch area.
The shoulder and the right northbound
lane have been closed since Fri.
Crews are now installing
reinforcing bars into the slope,
but it's just going to be a temporary fix.
C dot will start designing a permanent fix
this summer. Leaders of a
Colorado school district are
explaining that the removal of
several books from its libraries
may be upsetting some parents,
but complaints from other
parents sparked the move.
But at certain times, there are books
that are in front of children tt
the parents really, at a minimu,
have the right to know that ther
children have access to that bo.
The group, Moms for Liberty,
El Paso County, wrote to the
Superintendent of District 20 in
Colorado Springs saying at least three
books in school libraries are exposing
kids to sexually explicit mater.
After that, the Superintendent t
a letter to the district's principals
giving them the approval to remove the
books in question if they choose to do so.
After that, other concerned pars
questioned why the Superintendet
did not go through the establisd
book challenge process.
That process is expected
to happen this summer.