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[Events]: 2007 Colorado YWAM and New Life shootings
[Location]: Arvada/Colorado Springs
[Date]: December 9, 2007
[Number of persons killed]: 5
[Description]: Matthew Murray, opened fire at two church organizations in separate cities, killing four and wounding five others before committing suicide.
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[Events]: Aurora Town Center shooting
[Location]: Aurora, Colorado
[Date]: December 27, 2019
[Number of persons killed]: 1
[Description]: A 17-year-old male was shot and killed inside a JCPenney store in the Aurora Town Center mall. Kamyl Xavier Garrette, age 18, was charged with first degree murder in early January 2020.
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[Events]: Sand Creek Massacre
[Location]: Present day Kiowa County
[Date]: November 29, 1864
[Number of persons killed]: 163
[Description]: A 675-man force of Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry[3] under the command of U.S. Army Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory,[4] killing and mutilating an estimated 70–500 Native Americans, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.
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[Events]: STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting
[Location]: Highlands Ranch
[Date]: May 7, 2019
[Number of persons killed]: 1
[Description]: At STEM school in Highlands Ranch, 9 were shot including 1 dead. In 2019, Davon Erickson, an 18-year-old male, and another boy began to stand trial for the murders.
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[Events]: 2005 Denver police officer shooting
[Location]: Denver
[Date]: May 7–8, 2005
[Number of persons killed]: 1
[Description]: Two Denver police officers were shot at a dance hall by Raúl Gómez-García.
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[Events]: Columbine High School massacre
[Location]: Columbine
[Date]: April 20, 1999
[Number of persons killed]: 15 (including both perpetrators)
[Description]: Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and one teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly, with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide. It is the fifth-deadliest school massacre in United States history, after the 1927 Bath School disaster, the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the 1966 University of Texas massacre, and remained the deadliest for an American high school until the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting of 2018.
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