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• Fort Carson soldier jailed in North Carolina on suspicion of murder Play Video

  February 18, 2013 4:45 PM

  Detectives with the Colorado Springs Police Department will be making their way to Greenville, North Carolina this week to speak with a suspect they believe is involved in a suspicious death at a hotel. Sunday morning, officers responded to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2886 S. Circle Drive on a... more »

• Double homicide suspect in custody, neighbors react Play Video

  January 18, 2013 1:18 AM

  A suspect is in custody tonight for Monday's burglary turned double homicide in Colorado Springs. 17-year-old Macyo Joelle January was arrested in the 3900 block of East Bijou Street, wanted for first degree murder in the killings of Fort Carson solider David Dunlap and his wife Whitney Butler. They... more »

• Man convicted of first degree murder of Fort Carson soldier

  December 15, 2012 7:07 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A 23-year-old man has been convicted in the shooting death of a soldier from Illinois who was stationed at Fort Carson. The Denver district attorney's office said Friday that Ricky Scott was found guilty of first-degree murder in the July 23, 2011, death of 25-year-old Sgt. Anthony... more »

• Soldier gets 10-year sentence in child's death

  November 6, 2012 2:39 PM

  FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - A Fort Carson soldier has pleaded guilty in the death of his 2-year-old nephew and has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Our partners at The Gazette report Pfc. Jason A . Price pleaded guilty in a military court Monday to involuntary manslaughter. He... more »

• Ft. Carson soldier arrested, suspected of child abuse resulting in death

  August 25, 2012 12:36 PM

  An active duty Fort Carson soldier is arrested after the death of a 10-month-old boy. Last night, Sand Creek officers when to a home on Brant Hollow Court where the young child was unconscious but breathing. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors found multiple bruises on his... more »

• Police arrest shooting suspect, Golden Cue's violent history remains Play Video

  June 3, 2012 12:27 AM

  Dwight Gordon Jr. is charged with murder after allegedly gunning down a Fort Carson soldier and injuring a woman in a shooting at the Golden Cue bar in Colorado Springs early Saturday morning. Though the suspect is in custody, this type of activity has grown all too familiar at... more »

• Services this weekend for soldier shot in Denver

  July 29, 2011 6:11 AM

  COLUMBIA, Ill. (AP) - Services will be this weekend for an Army soldier from southwestern Illinois who was shot to death in Denver outside his motel. Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Silva of Columbia was stationed at Fort Carson when he was killed Saturday after being shot several times. He was... more »

• Remembering Fort Carson soldier killed

  July 17, 2011 4:48 PM

  FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - The Defense Department says a Fort Carson soldier was killed in combat in Afghanistan. The military said Sunday that 40-year-old Sgt. Lex L. Lewis of Rapid City, S.D., was killed Friday when insurgents attacked his unit with small-arms fire in Farah Province. Lewis... more »

• IED takes another soldier's life

  July 13, 2011 6:20 PM

  It was a somber day at Fort Carson this morning as the army honored another one of its own. PFC Eric Soufrine, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, was just a few months shy of his twenty-first birthday and only three weeks away from coming home before an IED... more »

• NF5 viewer tip lead police to fatal hit and run arrest

  June 4, 2011 10:25 PM

  Colorado Springs Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit and run last week at Rangewood Drive and Randall Drive, killing a Fort Carson soldier. "A vehicle turned left (south on Rangewood) in front of those two motorcycles, striking one of the motorcycles causing a fatal... more »

• Docs: Fort Carson Soldier was schizophrenic

  February 1, 2011 3:54 PM

  DENVER (AP)-A soldier charged with killing a captured Taliban member in Afghanistan was suffering from schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder at the time and didn't realize his actions were wrong, Army doctors said. Despite the diagnosis, Pfc. David Lawrence faces a court-martial on a charge of premeditated murder, the... more »

• Fort Carson soldier accused of impersonating a police officer

  January 27, 2011 8:52 PM

  A Fort Carson soldier was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of posing as a police officer and fondling a woman during what is being determined to be a bogus traffic stop in Castle Rock. William Lawler was taken into custody at the El Paso County jail on suspicion of impersonating... more »

• Ft. Carson soldier accused of killing prisoner

  November 30, 2010 6:08 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A fellow soldier of an Army private accused of shooting and killing a Taliban leader says he feared the private would kill the prisoner and maybe even himself. The testimony came during a court hearing at Tuesday Fort Carson to determine whether there is... more »

• Soldier injured during parachute exercise

  November 17, 2010 6:54 PM

  A Fort Carson soldier was injured this afternoon during a parachute operation. It happened around 12:30. The soldier, as yet unidentified, was airlifted to Penrose Hospital as a precaution. A Fort Carson spokesman said he was conscious, breathing and able to move before he was taken to the hospital.... more »

• Burglars get stuck inside medical marijuana shop

  November 14, 2010 11:00 PM

  Three Fort Carson soldiers were arrested early Saturday morning after a failed burglary attempt at a south eastern Colorado Springs medical marijuana facility. "They busted the doorknob off with a hammer and then they jimmied the door open." explains Rocky Road Remedies shop owner Renze Waddington, "But the locking mechanism... more »

• Running toward recovery

  October 16, 2010 6:33 PM

  Steve LaRocque, a Fort Carson soldier, has a reminder of what happened in September of 2009 every time he laces up his running shoes. LaRocque was shot in the knee while helping others who were injured during an ambush in Afghanistan; five people were shot that day, one person... more »

• Fort Carson soldier arrested in Walmart shooting

  October 5, 2010 6:07 PM

  Colorado Springs Police say they have made two arrests in a shooting death in front of a Walmart last month. 19 year old Frank Miller, a soldier from Fort Carson, has been arrested on charges of first degree murder. 17-year of Jordan Ellis of Colorado Springs was also... more »

• Soldier shot at Ft. Carson by Army police officer

  September 23, 2010 3:47 PM

  Fort Carson reports that an Army police officer shot a soldier on post Thursday afternoon at 12:20 p.m. According to Col. Robert McLaughlin, Fort Carson Garrison Commander, the soldier suffered non-life threatening injuries. He's being treated at Memorial Hospital. A 911 call was made at 11:45 a.m. It... more »

• Former Ft. Carson soldier's death reclassified

  September 16, 2010 3:55 PM

  A former Fort Carson soldier who was injured in Iraq and died stateside more than a year later, is now classified as a combat death. Sgt. Ryan Hopkins, 21, of Livermore, California, was deployed from Ft. Carson to Baghdad. He was injured in a motor pool accident on Oct.... more »

• Fort Carson soldier earns medal for preventing a suicide

  May 18, 2010 2:18 PM

  A Fort Carson soldier has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for preventing a buddy's suicide in Iraq. The Army says Spc. Albert Godding removed the firing pin from his buddy's rifle after noting he was feeling down because his wife was leaving him and he had several months... more »

• Fort Carson braces to treat more wounded soldiers

  May 4, 2010 9:13 AM

  More than 100 wounded soldiers from Afghanistan are expected to soon join Fort Carson's Warrior Transition Battalion amid questions about the unit's effectiveness. The Army post just south of Colorado Springs plans to add health care workers and uniformed administrators to the unit. The 3-year-old medical unit treats an average... more »

• Killed Colorado soldier had been honored by Obama

  April 14, 2010 9:01 AM

  A Fort Carson soldier from Aurora who died of wounds he suffered when a bomb exploded near his vehicle in Afghanistan was one of three soldiers personally awarded a Purple Heart by President Barack Obama. Twenty-four-year-old Sean M. Durkin died Friday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Maj.... more »

• Fort Carson soldier cleared of rape charge

  April 8, 2010 11:22 AM

  A Fort Carson soldier has been cleared in a court martial that accused him of sexually assaulting the wife of a man he had met while deployed in Iraq in 2008. Spc. Philip C. Vermeiren, 28, was found not guilty on all charges Wednesday after a two-day trial. ... more »

• Court martial underway for Fort Carson soldier

  April 7, 2010 8:48 AM

  A Fort Carson soldier faces a court martial for an allegedly sexually assaulting the wife of a man he had met while deployed in Iraq in 2008. Twenty-eight-year-old Spc. Philip C. Vermeiren's court martial continues Wednesday. Defense attorneys say Vermeiren and the woman had a brief consensual sexual encounter Oct.... more »

• Obama awards 3 wounded Fort Carson Purple Heart

  April 3, 2010 8:44 AM

  The Army says three Fort Carson soldiers wounded in Afghanistan were awarded the Purple Heart during President Barack Obama's visit to Kabul last weekend. The Colorado Springs Gazette reported Friday that Obama gave the soldiers the medals a day after they were attacked March 27 in a roadside bombing. The... more »

• Fort Carson fallen soldier

  February 23, 2010 12:23 PM

  The Defense Department says a soldier from Fort Carson was killed in Afghanistan when his unit was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades. Staff Sgt. Michael David P. Cardenaz of Corona, Calif., was killed Saturday. He is the 299th Fort Carson soldier killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The 29-year-old was deployed... more »

• Fort Carson soldier dies in Afghanistan

  January 20, 2010 2:20 PM

  The Defense Department says a Fort Carson soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says 19-year-old Spc. Robert Donevski of Sun City, Ariz., died Saturday from wounds he suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small-arms fire in Abad, Afghanistan. Donevski was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry... more »

• Fort Carson soldier pleads insanity in slaying

  December 8, 2009 4:27 PM

  A Fort Carson soldier accused of killing a woman and raping a teenager has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Robert Hull Marko is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Judilianna Lawrence, whom he met over the Internet. Her body was found in October 2008. He... more »

• Guilty! Verdicts reached in garage sale sign murders

  November 18, 2009 6:32 PM

  Jomar Falu-Vives was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder Wednesday in the shocking deaths of two young people gunned down while posting garage sale signs in Colorado Springs. Jurors returned the verdicts late Wednesday afternoon. Falu-Vives was a Fort Carson soldier and Iraq War veteran when... more »

• Jury selection begins in murder trial of accused soldier

  October 27, 2009 7:31 PM

  Jury selection is under way in the trial of a Fort Carson soldier accused of shooting and killing a Colorado Springs couple. Jomar Falu-Vives is accused of gunning down Cesar Ibanez and Amairany Cervantes in a drive by shooting that happened while the couple was hanging garage sale signs... more »

• 2 Fort Carson soldiers killed in Afghanistan

  October 27, 2009 4:00 PM

  Two Fort Carson soldiers died in separate attacks in Afghanistan. Pfc. Devin J. Michel, 19, of Stockton, Illinois, died Saturday in Zhari province, when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th... more »

• Fort Carson soldier remembered as loving dad

  October 17, 2009 9:01 AM

  The family of Army Sgt. Michael Scusa says the Fort Carson soldier, formerly of Villas, N.J., set his sights on the military as a child. In a statement read at Scusa's funeral Friday in Colorado Springs, Lt. Col. Robert Brown said Scusa's efforts in a battle that killed him preserved... more »

• Fort Carson soldier dies in Afghanistan

  September 23, 2009 5:33 PM

  For a second straight day, Fort Carson has announced the death of a soldier in Afghanistan. Pfc. William L. Meredith was killed Monday in Kandahar when his vehicle was attacked by a bomb. Pfc. Meredith served with 569th Engineer Company, 4th Engineer Battalion. He was originally from Virginia Beach.... more »

• Hikers safe after surviving two nights in mountains

  September 14, 2009 2:18 PM

  A Fort Carson soldier and his 19-year-old girlfriend from Pueblo are safe--having survived two nights in the mountains. The pair endured snow showers both nights, while wearing just jeans, t-shirts and tennis shoes. They're inexperienced hikers who went on a day hike in rugged country, and got lost. According to... more »