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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]: 1914 Ludlow Massacre
[Location]: Ludlow
[Date]: April 20, 1914
[Number of persons killed]: 23–29
[Description]: The Colorado National Guard and camp guards of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company fired on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families.
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[Events]: 1993 Aurora, Colorado shooting
[Location]: Aurora
[Date]: December 13, 1993
[Number of persons killed]: 4
[Description]: Nathan Dunlap, 18, who was fired from a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant as a cook, opened fire, killing four employees and wounding another. He was convicted of first degree murder and attempted murder charges and was sentenced to death. In 2013, then-Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper indefinitely delayed Dunlap’s execution. Hickenlooper was expected to order a clemency in his death penalty before his term ended in early 2019 but no official word had been given. As of June 2018, he remains on death row. On August 20, 2018, Hickenlooper stated that he had no intent to revisit Dunlap’s case. On January 20, 2019, Jared Polis took office as the current Governor.
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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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[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]: Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis
[Location]: Bailey
[Date]: September 27, 2006
[Number of persons killed]: 2
[Description]: Duane Roger Morrison, took a high school classroom hostage. Emily Keyes, one of the hostages, was shot and killed as she tried to escape. Morrison died after a combination of shooting himself and being shot by police.
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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]: 2010 Deer Creek Middle School shootings
[Location]: Littleton
[Date]: February 23, 2010
[Number of persons killed]: 0
[Description]: Bruco Eastwood, fired a rifle in the school’s parking lot, wounding two students. He was tackled by faculty and arrested. Eastwood was found to be legally insane and held in the state mental hospital.
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[Events]: 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting
[Location]: Aurora
[Date]: July 20, 2012
[Number of persons killed]: 12
[Description]: James Holmes, opened fire during a midnight showing of the film "The Dark Knight Rises". In addition to 12 dead, 70 people were injured.
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[Events]: 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting
[Location]: Centennial
[Date]: December 13, 2013
[Number of persons killed]: 2
[Description]: Eighteen-year-old student Karl Pierson entered Arapahoe High School carrying Molotov cocktails and a shotgun. He shot another student and then shot himself dead.
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[Events]: Halloween 2015 Colorado Springs shooting
[Location]: Colorado Springs
[Date]: October 31, 2015
[Number of persons killed]: 4 (including the perpetrator)
[Description]: Noah Harpham killed three. Harpham was open carrying, and some open carry opponents would assert this allowed such a delay before response that he was able to kill more individuals than in a case where a police response would have been warranted by his presence with a rifle.
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[Events]: November 2015 Colorado Springs shooting
[Location]: Colorado Springs
[Date]: November 27, 2015
[Number of persons killed]: 3
[Description]: A shooting and five-hour standoff with police occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. A University of Colorado Colorado Springs police officer and two civilians were killed in the shooting, one was a mother of two and the other was an Iraqi war vet. The suspected shooter, identified as Robert Lewis Dear, was captured alive after police convinced him to surrender. During his arrest, he gave a "rambling" interview in which, at one point he said, "No more baby parts". Nine other victims, comprising five police officers and four civilians, were also reportedly shot.
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[Events]: Thornton shooting
[Location]: Thornton
[Date]: November 1, 2017
[Number of persons killed]: 3
[Description]: A lone gunman named Scott Ostrem, walked into a Walmart store, shot three people near the cash registers, then fled the scene. All three victims were killed.
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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]: 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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