Classes were cancelled at the university while the school offered counselling for students. Photo / AP
Classes were cancelled at the university while the school offered counselling for students. Photo / AP
A suspect has been arrested in the US on murder charges over the shootings of two people who were found dead in a dorm room last week at the University of Colorado, police said.
The Colorado Springs Police Department said they arrested Nicholas Jordan, 25, withoutincident on two counts of first-degree murder. The victims were identified as Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, and Samuel Knopp, 24, a student at the university about 111km south of Denver.
After getting an arrest warrant, the police’s motor vehicle theft unit found Jordan in a car and the tactical enforcement unit took him into custody in Colorado Springs, police announced on the social media platform X.
The shootings appeared to be an “isolated incident” between people who knew each other, not a random attack at the school, police said. While the coroner’s office will determine how they died, each victim was shot at least once, police previously said.
The police department was called about shots fired from the university’s dormitory, Creston House, where they found the two already dead.
A campus-wide lockdown was issued for 90 minutes after the shooting, and the university remained closed for the day and through the weekend. Classes were cancelled while the school offered counselling for students.
The school has more than 11,000 students and nearly 2000 faculty and staff.
It’s unknown if Jordan has an attorney who can comment on his behalf. Court records aren’t yet available in the case and a hearing hasn’t been scheduled.
