walks outside and he starts to shoot people in the head. bobby stephens was walking inside after a smoking break. as i went back into work is when i started hearing the gunshots. i thought somebody dropped something. sylvia crowell who had been cleaning the salad bar was the first person shot. she never saw dunlap coming. ben grant, vacuuming, was killed next. heard the next two shots. the only thing that came to my mind was the kids are out there popping the balloons. colleen o connor saw dunlap approaching. she sank to her knees, clasped her hands together and pleaded for her life, but dunlap fired a bullet through the top of her head. i was loading some utensils into the dishwasher. i turned around and nathan dunlap came through the kitchen door. right then is when i knew i was in trouble.
as police in aurora, colorado, began investigating the brutal murders at chuck e. cheese s, they immediately focused on the suspect, disgruntled ex-employee nathan dunlap. dunlap had apparently been very open about his plans. sometime in december, he begins to tell his compatriots, his friends, that he intends to rob chuck e. cheese and he s going to kill everybody in there. following the shooting, concerned parents rush to the scene. among the crowd was nathan dunlap s mother, carol. we started talking with her, and her views at that point was that he didn t do this, but if you think he did, let s get this taken care of. she called him, and she told him, you need to come home and talk with the police right now. they ended up finding him at his girlfriend s house. he was having sex with her, and when he got the call to come back to this house, which was his mother s home, he got in the
school wrestler. and colleen o connor, also 17, a senior at eagle crest high school. marge kohlberg, 50, and a mother of 2 was working her first night alone as manager. out in the dining room sat 19-year-old former employee, nathan dunlap. nathan dunlap worked there for a time but is ultimately let go. he had an attitude problem and is a bit of a discipline issue for the management. so on the particular night in question, nathan dunlap goes into that chuck e. cheese and he orders dinner. dunlap plays video games. played a shooter video game, hogan s alley. chuck e. cheese closes. dunlap goes into the bathroom. waits in the bathroom. he goes to the mirror. he gets himself psyched up. looks at himself and tells himself he can do this. and he pulls out his gun and he
think this is just what do i think is the appropriate law to have on the books regarding the death penalty? this is what the state of colorado thinks. by the time the bill failed, both of rhonda s son s killers, sir mario owens, and robert ray, had been sentenced to death. they joined the only other occupant on colorado s death row, nathan dunlap. critics of the death penalty noticed troubling similarities. owens, ray, and dunlap all went to the same high school. they all were young african-american men at the time that they were charged in their cases. and they were all charged in the same exact judicial district. why are these three singled out, and they re the only people on death row? race is extremely important, but it s not important as it relates to this concept of death penalty.
august of 2013. now, dunlap s last effort to save his life is in asking the governor of the state of colorado for clemency. in 2010, governor john hickenlooper jr., the popular former mayor of denver, had won the governor s seat in commanding fashion. this clemency appeal arrives on john hickenlooper s desk as the last hope for nathan dunlap s life. with eyes across the nation watching colorado, governor hickenlooper would be forced to decide whether nathan dunlap should live or die. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. isn t it time to let the real you shine through? introducing otezla, apremilast. otezla is not an injection, or a cream. it s a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. some people who took otezla saw 75% clearer skin after 4 months. and otezla s prescribing information has