Shooting suspect, male victim in CU Colorado Springs double homicide were roommates, police say
The suspect in the dorm-room double homicide on the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus and the student killed in the shooting were roommates, police confirmed Tuesday.
Colorado Springs police on Monday arrested Nicholas Trevon Jordan, 25, of Detroit, on suspicion of two counts of first-degree murder in the Friday morning shooting of Samuel Knopp, 24, and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26.
Jordan is scheduled to appear virtually in court Tuesday afternoon for an advisement hearing, according to online court records.
Knopp and Jordan, both students, were roommates at CU Colorado Springs, police spokesperson Caitlin Ford confirmed Tuesday morning. Montgomery was not a student.
Colorado Springs police so far have offered few details about the shooting, including what instigated the violence or details of Montgomery’s relationship to the roommates.
Investigators obtained a warrant for Jordan’s arrest Friday evening and found him Monday morning, after a weekend-long search, in a vehicle in the 4900 block of Cliff Point Circle East in Colorado Springs, according to the police department.
He is being held on a $1 million bond at the El Paso County Jail.
Online court records show Jordan’s record was sealed Saturday and unsealed Tuesday morning.
Knopp, of Parker, and Montgomery, of Pueblo, were killed in the shooting early Friday morning in a Crestone House dorm room.
Campus police responded to reports of shots fired at about 6 a.m., and the shooting sparked a lockdown on campus and led to classes and activities being canceled and the campus being closed through the weekend.
Police over the weekend had stressed that “this is an isolated incident between parties that were known to one another and not a random attack against the school or other students at the university.”
At 2 p.m. Monday, hours after Jordan’s arrest, hundreds of university students, staff and faculty, as well as city residents, embarked on a healing walk from the north end of campus to its center before hearing remarks from campus police chief Dewayne McCarver, student body president Axel Brown and Chancellor Jennifer Sobanet.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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