A Michigan man was arrested Monday on homicide charges in connection with the shooting deaths of two people at a dormitory on the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, police said.
Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, enrolled at the university in Colorado Springs, along with another student, Samuel Knapp, 24, of Barker, Colo. and was arrested on charges of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Celie Rayne Montgomery, 26. In Pueblo, Colo., the Colorado Springs Police Department on Monday a A series of statements In X.
Mr. Jordan is being held at the El Paso County Jail on a $1 million bond and was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Records show.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and the people involved are known to each other. They did not provide motive or other details.
Mr. Knapp was a senior in music at the university, and Mr. Jordan also enrolled at the university, university spokeswoman Jenna Press said. She did not give further details. In 2023, the university's concert was held A video Mr. Knapp played guitar during his junior recital.
Around 6 a.m. Friday, campus police received a call about a shooting from Crestone House, a dormitory on the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, a town of about 480,000 people in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Campus police found two people dead in the room and called the Colorado Springs Police Department, which dispatched its homicide unit to investigate.
By Friday night, police had obtained an arrest warrant for Mr. Desperate to find Jordan. By Sunday, the police department had called the shooting “an isolated incident between known parties and not a random attack against other students at the school or university.”
The department said it works with campus police to ensure the campus community is safe.
As of 8 a.m. Monday, the search continued throughout the weekend, when a motor vehicle theft unit called Mr. Police said they found Jordan in a car in the city. He was arrested about 30 minutes later.
Students and officials led a “healing walk” on campus Monday, laying flowers at the base of a marble statue of a mountain lion, the university's mascot and mascot for its athletic teams.
