Two people were killed in a shooting at a home in northeast Denver early Sunday.
Six people were shot early this morning in the 5050 block of Orleans Court in Denver. A boy and a 26-year-old man were killed. Denver police said the first 911 call occurred just before 1:30 a.m. and that this was not a random crime. Two shooting victims were taken by themselves or by others to local hospitals, and the remaining four were taken by ambulance.
Police said in an update Sunday night that the shooting appears to have stemmed from a conflict between attendees of a house party and uninvited people. The confrontation further escalated, and multiple people fired multiple guns. Police said the boy who was killed was not involved in the initial conflict.
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A neighbor who didn't want to be on camera said it was nostalgic to wake up at a crime scene.
“I don't want to say this area is terrible, but like I said, kids are out every day in the summer. It just doesn't feel like normal life,” she said.
But a few days before Halloween, she said, there was a shooting at a street party on Orleans Court. The previous May, a shooting suspect barricaded himself in a house a block away.
She said she doesn't think it's a dangerous area, but the family is ready to move.
“I don't think this is a ghetto. I'm from Los Angeles and I know what a ghetto is like. But there are a lot of people in this area and I think the police presence has completely disappeared.” she said. “I've done nothing wrong with the police, but there's been an influx of people into this area, and the population has probably quadrupled in the last 10 years since I've been here. think.”
She says she knows police are doing the best they can because they have their hands full. She blames the current culture.
“Now you have people gathering and people bringing guns. It's scary,” she said.
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Even though Sunday's shooting happened just half a block away, the neighbor heard or saw nothing. Still, she says it's time for her family to move on.
“Well, we've had three mass shootings in the last nine months on our streets. It's not fun to live in this situation,” she said.
DPD investigators are still working to develop suspicious information. But department spokesman Sean Toles said the incident was “not a coincidence.”
Three of the injured survivors are male and the fourth is also male, but police have not yet confirmed the age of the fourth. One of them remains in critical condition.
Police are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting and working to obtain information on the suspect. They believe some witnesses left before officers arrived.
