Twice in one week,
the Denver Sheriff's Departments
its deputies got sent to the hospital
after an inmate assaulted them.
One happened Tuesday,
the other last night as tensions
rise inside the downtown jail.
Here's 9 news reporter Kelly Ree
while working inside Denver's
downtown jail this year.
Four people have ended their sht
at the hospital since January.
The Sheriff's Department says inmates have
attacked 3 deputies and the Sergeant.
Two of those attacks happened just this week,
on Tuesday morning and Wednesday night.
A department spokesperson said e
incidents took place in a housing area.
Someone very familiar with the assaults told
9 news employees are fed up with the attacks.
This is happening as the departt
continues to have issues with staffing,
an oversight board said.
At the end of 2022 the agency
was down about 300U personnel.
Their yearly report noted it's
resulted in mandatory overtime.
And it's not uncommon for deputs
to work 14 to 16 hour shifts.
Now, the Oversight Board says is
concerned about staffing levels
because it impacts the quality
of life of inmates and deputies.
The sheriff does have a plan to
address recruitment and retenti,
and part of that includes
salary increases and bonuses.
All
right, Kelly, thank you.
Started with a gun battle in
a grocery store parking lot.
It ended with a bad crash
and one person dead.
Police in Aurora are investigata
series of crimes that unfolded last night.
Stay with me. This is complicat.
Police say it started just before 11:00
PM in the Safeway parking lot on S Havana.
Three people were sitting in
a Kia in front of the store.
Police say two people in another car pulled
up and the driver got out and pulled out.
A rifle fired, hitting one of those people.
So two people in the Kia,
they got out with guns out of t,
you know, out of the car.
They shot back as the third
person ran into the store.
Police say the driver who startd
the shootout got back into his ,
drove to the hospital where he .
The people in the Kia drove awas
well and crashed into another c.
They were ejected in the crash d
have critical injuries tonight.
The driver in the other car was
also seriously hurt.
Police in Lakewood say two men are dead.
Another man is in the hospital.
This is all after a shooting ata
home this afternoon and they tha
fourth person may have been a part of
the shooting as well and also h.
This happened at a home near 14h
and Sheridan.
When police got there they found three
men shot and a whole bunch of g.
One of the men was already dead,
another died at the hospital and
a third is still being treated.
They think that a fourth person
who is there for the shooting rn
off and may also have gotten sh.
Police say these men knew each r
and the shooting was targeted.
The race for Denver mayor is not done,
but some of the policies pitchen
the campaign trail are done because of
who is heading to the mayoral runoff.
With about 2400 votes left to be counted,
the top two candidates are prety
much squared away at this point,
Mike Johnston still in first
place with about 42,000 votes,
and Kelly Bruff trails him with 34,000.
Progressive candidate Lisa Caldn
is about 3200 votes short enough
for her to concede the race tod.
The votes that have not been counted yet
need to be corrected or cured by the voter.
For example,
someone maybe forgot to sign their ballot
or their signature doesn't match the records,
so they have until Thursday to fix these
issues so that their vote can be counted.
And Denver will go from a field of 16
candidates on Election Day down to two
people now with pretty similar ideologies.
Both of them want to hire
more Denver police officers.
Both of them enforce the camping ban targeted
at people experiencing homeless.
Now Bruff says people who violae
the camping ban should be arres.
Johnston does not.
They are also both anti rent
control in Denver.
So while Denver is poised to
have a centrist for mayor.
City Council could shift
further to the left candy seat.
Ibaka,
the only democratic socialist on the Council,
will head to a runoff.
Serena Gonzalez Gutierrez and Sh
parody currently have the top to
spots for the at large council seats.
They are both backed by progressive groups.
Investigators say young woman wo
threatened to school shooting in
Colorado Springs had a manifesto
and floor plans of the school.
Prosecutors in Albert County say
Lily Whitworth's sister called
police at the end of March claig
Whitworth had anger issues and e
had talked about a school shoot.
Deputies say the 19 year old tod
them she was planning a shootind
one of the targets was Timberviw
middle school in Colorado Sprin.
That's where she last went to
school and arrest.
Affidavit says she had a
layout of that school.
She was starting a manifesto which included
detailed lists of people to be killed.
And information about making bo.
She's being held in jail on a
$75,000 bond facing charges for
attempted murder and more.
Police say a worker at a Walmarn
Loveland is dead tonight after somebody
ran over him and trapped him under their car.
Police say this happened around 1:00 o'clock
today in the store parking lot of Hwy.
287.
That worker was returning shopping carts when
police say an 83 year old woman ran into him.
First responders found the man trapped under
her car and he died there in the parking lot.
Police say the woman is coopera.
They do not think she
was impaired or speeding.
Colorado abortion access advocates say
they have seen a 30 fold increan
outofstate patients coming here to seek care.
But since the Supreme Court
overturned Roe versus Wade,
doctors in the states that bannd
abortions have also had to leav.
9 news reporter Cole Sullivan
introduces us to one Doctor Who
moved more than 1200 miles to Denver.
Her dinner routine hasn't chang,
but where Dr. Leila Zahadi
Spong's family Eats has.
Thankfully, we were buying a
house right when the housing
market kind of took a slumpier.
They've moved before, from
undergrad to Med school, where .
Spong learned to provide abortions and
help women with high risk pregnancies.
To this day, delivering babies s
the coolest thing I do, but thee
to Colorado was her hardest
that I pulled my children out of school.
I told them we were moving
because I couldn't do my job.
I had to say goodbye to people
that I really care about,
including patients. Spong
had bought a dream home in Chattanooga,
along the Tennessee River.
I knew that that's where I
would be happiest. I also knew.
It was a place where my skills that I had
built over my seven years of training,
especially abortion care provis,
would be used and needed. But when the
Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade,
a Tennessee law made the care se
provided illegal and forced her to send
patients away or risk a felony charge.
I couldn't do it. I couldn't
put myself at risk like that.
I couldn't put my family at risk like that.
It just wasn't worth it, unfortunately.
She took a job providing care
in Colorado late last year,
so now there's no one there,
and that causes a lot of guilt, guilt
for the home and for the peoplee
left behind. Thankfully, my famy
is so supportive and so home
is wherever I'm with them,
but it's been hard on everybody.
Oh, we're glad to be here,
she says she knows she is not te
only doctor to leave Tennessee,
and she's grateful Colorado is
advancing laws to protect women
who seek abortion care here.
She says she's still heartbroken
for the patients left behind. As
we talk about these doctors,
it also makes me think of the fe
doctor students who are in Med school
who might be choosing this carer
in states where it's not legal.
Curious if that Doctor had anything to say
about like the future of that profession.
She's very concerned about it.
Not because not only because dos
who are practicing, they are leaving,
but also Med students might not try to
opt into states where they can't learn
this care if they want to provide it.
Leaving this vacuum in some of e
states that have laws that havee
into effect post row. Interesti.
It's really interesting to see
kind of the follow after all th.
OK, cool. Thank you.
Central hospitals in Colorado ae
telling patients about a data
breach that exposed their persol
information six months later.
Common spirit Health,
which owns the Catholic hospitas
under the Centura umbrella,
says it first detected signs
of a ransomware attack at the
beginner beginning of October.
Their investigation found hackes
got a hold of patient files with
information including names,
date of birth, contact info,
medical records and in some cas,
Social Security numbers.
Common Spirit says it took a while to
figure out all the people impac.
Hospital chain says they are mag
notifications to patients today.
Well, today almost felt like the
unofficial start to summertime.
A beautiful sunny day,
a slight chill in the air,
perfect weather to watch the
Rockies win their home opener.
And it wasn't a hard game to
watch with jerks and profiles.
Amazing catches today and his
home debut with the team in the
first inning catching that one.
Even Bud Black recognized all
the Colorado born and raised
guys on the field today.
You know the beauty about today again. You know
talking about a Colorado starter
and a Colorado closer is it
isn't that cool? You know Kyle's
you know place
on this team and now here comes
Pierce and and Lucas Gilberth
and you know others who have,
you know, come from Colorado.
Hometown guys fans may have also noticed
just how quick the game went to.
Those new baseball rules are now in effect,
and if you just, like,
step out for one drink,
you could miss a couple innings,
which now fly by so fast.
Rod Mackey has more about the game and
opening day coming up later in sports.
We said we want a ban on assault weapons.
They said we're going to stop democracy.
3 lawmakers protested a lack
of action on gun control today.
Their colleagues kicked two of them out,
but they let the white lawmakers stay.
Investigators say a confession e
high led to a tip to a desperate mom's
Facebook page and the discoverya
body buried in an apartment crawl space.
And sometimes the samples can be pretty.
That's a science term.
Sometimes smelly solution
to an important problem.
This team says answers are
going down the toilet.
It was tough to find any clouds
across Colorado today and
there's more sunshine on the way
tomorrow and through the weeken.
A big warm up and possibly
some record-breaking temps.
We'll see you on the other side of the break.