There is another Bronco
in the Hall of Fame. I mean, sure,
he's sure he was a cowboy too,
but he has a ring to compliment that
orange chair, that yellow jacket.
Thanks to his time in Orange and Blue,
we're claiming him.
Former outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware
helped the Broncos to a Super Bowl win.
Our Broncos insider Mike Klis got to see
the big moment from the crowd in Arizona,
and you were able to talk to him right
after the ceremony as well. Mike.
I did, yeah. He got most of his
sacks with the Dallas Cowboys.
DeMarcus Ware did.
He played nine years there.
He played only three
with the Denver Broncos.
But as DeMarcus showed me and
all the viewers out there,
he has something nice and big and
shiny that only the Broncos got him,
and not with the Cowboys.
It brought Vonage like my brother,
I'm, I'm just gonna start there.
And to be able to come and mentor Vaughn
and now him doing the same thing and going
win that championship with the Rams and
then try to do the same thing in Buffalo.
It was like that little seed got planted
and it's still living and it's still going.
And then he sent me a picture of his baby.
He just had his baby.
He said all of that.
So it's it's it's amazing relationship
that we built.
It was so worth it.
I was talking about Von Miller
there, and I tell you what, von DeMarcus
Ware goes in on his second ballot.
What I remember, guys, at AFC
championship game against the Patriots,
he hit Tom Brady not once,
not twice, but eight times in that
AFC championship game. He was hurt,
but he played excellent in that game.
We have good memories. I think Tom Brady
still remembers it, too. Thanks, Mike.
A man killed his ex-girlfriend and
her 16 year old daughter with a gun
that he was not supposed to have.
Court ordered him to give up his weapons,
but no one checked to see
if he still had one.
The victim's family wants to know why.
Here's 9 news reporter Kelly Rinke.
Two people are dead in Loveland after a
man shot them and then took off to Erie.
They said they were looking for a guy
named Javier Acevedo, 49 years old,
660 Crimson Way. If you
guys can get in there quick,
he's getting close.
That is Javier Acevedo. We've already
told you what he did last summer,
and now we're learning more about what
didn't happen before the shooting.
And that story starts with a phone call.
My mother called me on the phone.
I was like. My I was at the scene within 20
minutes Garen Dom got a call that
something happened at a sister Lindsay's
house and it's something that he
always knew could eventually come.
One day in July of last year,
Javier Acevedo went to his
ex girlfriend's house,
Lindsey's house and shot and
killed her and her 16 year
old daughter Meadow Center.
That's your suspect.
It's still holding the rifle,
still holding the magazine.
The footage we got from the Loveland
Police Department really shows
just how chaotic that day was.
If you do not comply with commands work,
maybe you guys, you police are
scrambling and they eventually
find Javier Acevedo in Erie,
and he is holding the gun that he used
to kill Lindsay and Meadow that day.
He ends up killing himself, too.
It's like your entire life
starts over on this day.
You know, everything.
It it changes everything.
We know that he purchased the
gun he used to kill Lindsay and
Meadow a few months before a court
required him to give up his guns.
They could have gotten that gun,
you know. He should have had to
physically relinquish that gun.
Acevedo's ex-wife asked a Denver
County court to grant her a
criminal protection order,
and that's what they did.
And as a part of that,
they required Acevedo to give up
any guns he had at the time on
the firearm relinquishment form.
You can see that Javier Acevedo
checked a box saying he did
not possess a gun at the time.
We know that he purchased the gun
a few months before he signed a
piece of paper saying he had to
relinquish any firearms he had.
You just take his word.
Or at no, absolutely not.
You couldn't take this
person's word for anything.
The guy was a compulsive liar.
What do you think he intended
when he bought that shotgun?
That's what I think about
more than anything now.
This case was handled by the
Denver City Attorney's office,
and that office said they don't
have a role in verifying the
truthfulness of what's said on
a firearm relinquishment form.
Basically, they just don't chat.
But unless someone is to say that you are
lying on that form or committing perjury,
there is no way to really enforce that.
Katie Wolfe is the public policy.
Director for Violence Free Colorado.
And she really gets this stuff because
she works with lawmakers in our state
on bills related to domestic violence.
Denver sees about 20 more than
2500 domestic violence cases at
the municipal level every year,
and so it'd be really hard and
a lot of resources for them to
be able to investigate every
single ring relinquishment form.
Garren was really upset that no one checked,
and he thinks that that should change.
They're just like, oh, here, sign here.
Oh, you're already in enough trouble here.
Just check this little box
and say you don't have any.
And how easy would it have been to find
out that he had purchased that firearm?
Katie knows that we can't create
a database like that because our
state constitution makes it illegal.
It would be a lot easier if
there were a way to just check
to see if people had guns,
if there was a database where
people's names were listed.
The Colorado Constitution prohibits
that from happening. Lindsey
went to a Larimer County court twice asking
for a protection order against Acevedo,
and both times a judge denied her request,
saying there just wasn't enough evidence.
And one of those requests she said Acevedo.
Threatened to kill her when she was denied
the protection order the second time.
It was just a month before
Acevedo killed her. Feeling
even remotely like that was enough is
the biggest thing for me. I feel so.
I mean, that's just the guilt that
I deal with like every single day.
Darren was incredibly upset and he
felt like he put too much trust
and faith in a system that was
supposed to protect his sister.
You always are going to feel like
there's so much more you could have done.
But I mean, I I really. I mean,
I feel like. A total sucker.
He had a lot of hesitancies
talking about his sister's case.
But because there were so many
warning signs, he felt it was
important to talk about really,
the worst day of his life.
It's hard for me to, you know,
look back and think about things like,
well, like metal, for example, you know,
and look at that picture and go,
oh, it's hard for me to remember.
Oh, yeah, I remember.
She was such a happy kid,
you know, and things like that.
It's that stuff is really
hard to even fathom now.
The day that Lizzie Dahman
Meadow Center were killed,
the 16 year old had just finished her
internship with the Colorado Congress.
People need to hear this
and people need to know.
Yeah, this is the this
is the state you live in.
Two times a woman
in Loveland ask a judge to make
her ex-boyfriend give up his guns
and stay away from her home.
Now the Denver District Attorney's Office,
which handles misdemeanor and felony charges,
has a firearm relinquishment investigator.
They focus primarily on
domestic violence cases,
and they even check those forms.
When defendants say they don't have a gun,
they say they are the only jurisdiction in
Colorado with this type of investigator.
The city Attorney's office says they
don't have an investigator like this
because they handle municipal cases,
and that doesn't trigger the federal law
that prohibits someone from having a gun.
But there are so many of those 25.
100 more than 2500 is what Katie is saying.
It's a lot to handle.
Yeah. And and I mean for a family
to have tried to do everything that
they could to have asked for help
to put the warning signs out there
and for thing for them to be failed,
it's just so heartbreaking.
And so that's what the family is saying too.
Like what else was Lindsay supposed to do?
Like she had filed those forms
and ex-wife had filed those forms.
It's just I think the family just kind of
feels helpless and that's why they feel
that this needs to be checked that firearm
relinquishment investigator down in.
Or here in the Denver District
Attorney's office, just started very
recently and just from this past year,
they've already relinquished more
than 100 firearms and about 50 cases.
But again, that's super rare.
We don't see that anywhere else in Colorado.
They did everything right
and still it wasn't enough.
Yeah. Thank you. Thanks, Kelly.
A court case out of Texas could have
ripple effects on abortion providers
all the way here in Colorado,
an anti abortion group,
including some doctors,
sued the FDA in federal court trying to
overturn the FDA's approval of myth Prestone.
It's used as a second drug to terminate
an early pregnancy in the US,
known to most as the abortion pill.
It can also be used to manage miscarriages.
The FDA approved that drug
more than 20 years ago.
If mifepristone gets
pulled off the market now,
it would change abortion options.
Around the country,
even in states like Colorado
where abortion is fully legal.
Problem
is, even in states like ours,
you are guaranteed access to abortion.
You are not guaranteed a method.
We are preparing for the worst,
hoping for the best where state
that respects abortion rights,
we want people to be able to access it,
will figure out a way to help them do it.
It'll just be more complicated.
The judge deciding this case was
appointed by President Donald Trump.
It's a common strategy for federal
plaintiffs to file in a sympathetic
court in this case before a
conservative judge in Texas. Leaders
in Douglas County are celebrating,
saying that they have reduced
the number of people experiencing
homelessness in their county.
Part of their strategy includes
trucking people out of the county.
County leaders shared the first
numbers from a point in time count.
For Douglas County,
it's a tally of the number of
people on the streets or in
shelters at any one given night.
So they found 27 people experiencing
homelessness on January 30th.
That's down from 50 people
in January of 2022.
Republican County Commissioner Abe
Laydon credits the change to their new.
Homeless Engagement assistance resource
Team heart that group helps law
enforcement respond to calls about
people experiencing homelessness.
Since the heart team was created in October,
they have transported 24 people
to sober living homes or shelters,
all outside Douglas County.
Colorado's only oil refinery is about to
start running again after a 6 week shutdown.
The Suncor refinery in Commerce City
closed at the end of December after
2 fires and damage from extreme cold.
The company says repairs are done.
One of these three plants and it's
going to reopen next week, Suncor says.
The entire facility probably won't
be running again until March.