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Samuel Knopp and Celie Rain Montgomery were killed Friday morning inside a dorm on the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs campus.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Police said on Monday that a suspect has been arrested in a shooting in a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs dormitory that left a man and a woman dead.
Samuel Knopp, 24, and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, were killed inside the Crestone House dormitory on the UCCS campus on Friday morning. Knopp was a student at UCCS, while Montgomery was not a student, police said.
Colorado Springs Police identified the alleged gunman as 25-year-old Nicholas Jordan. He is from Detroit, police said. In a release, they said the shooting was “an isolated incident” between individuals who knew one another.
Police said an arrest warrant was signed on Jordan Friday night. On Monday morning, officers located him in a vehicle in the 4900 block of Cliff Point Circle East and took him into custody.
UCCS is holding a memorial healing walk at 2 p.m. Monday. Grief counselors and other mental health professionals are at locations around campus Monday providing services for students and faculty who may need it.
Timeline of the case
- Police received a call of shots fired shortly before 6 a.m. Friday.
- Officers entered a dorm room at 6:05 a.m. and found Knopp and Montgomery dead.
- A lockdown and shelter-in-place was ordered by police and the university just after 7 a.m.
- The shelter-in-place was reduced from being campus-wide to the area around Alpine Village at about 8 a.m.
- The shelter-in-place was fully lifted just after 9:30 a.m.
- Knopp and Montgomery’s identities were released by Colorado Springs Police Sunday afternoon.
- On Monday just after noon, CSPD announced Jordan’s arrest.
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