Died. Three coaches all have significant injuries. This is homecoming week at legacy in bloomfield. The big game is friday. Well know tomorrow if the game will be played. Today school and Community Focused on the family of the bus driver who died and the coaches who are still in the hospital. Heres 9news reporter victoria sanchez. Reporter hours after tragedy hit Legacy High School classes resumed, though not as usual. I just kind of started crying a little bit in my spanish class because as a time. Reporter sunday afternoon word spread quickly among the teens, a school bus with Football Players and coaches crashed at Denver International airport killing the driver and seriously injuring three coaches. I know that theyll get through it and come out stronger than ever. Reporter Wayne Voorhees, matt kroupa and kyle rider are still in the hospital. During homecoming week each day has a theme, but after the upon themselves to change it. It was supposed to be sport day where we wore our col
Million dollars. Thats how much the city of lakewood is paying to settle a lawsuit brought by a widow after her Police Officer husband was killed by friendly fire. Tarhonda thomas has the latest. Tarhonda this november will mark four years since yes. And the circumstances are tragic. It was november 9th 2012. Officer james davies was responding to a call of shots fired in lakewood. A number of officers responded. As they were looking for the suspect davies was behind a fence. A fellow officer mistook him for the suspect and shot. Davies was killed. The officer who acidentally shot him was not charged. Two years later, his widow filed a lawsuit in federal Court Alleging that the shooting could have been prevented. Her lawyer cited Police Incompetence in the lawsuit. Now she has agreed to drop that federal suit. In exchange, the city of lakewood will pay her threepointfive Million Dollars. Lakewood police admit. A number of mistakes lead up to the shooting. Police are investigating anoth
This hour. Well be following developments as the morning continues. Again, one man in Critical Condition after being shot in the head here. Reporting live in denver, im amanda del castillo, denver 7. Right now we are tracking breaking news. A u. S. Air strike is blamed for killing possibly 13 or more civilians in afghanistan. A u. S. Military spokesperson right now is only confirming that there was a counterterrorism air strike in aware of afghan casualties. But there are conflictiig reports now of whether or not militants were killee or civilians. Afghan Officials Say at least 13 civilians were killed and also more than a dozen injured as well. Well continue to follow this as the death toll changes or if the u. S. Responds any more to this. Heres your first alert it will be a lot like yesterday. By 4 00. A lot of sunshine. Clear skies this morning. Its going to be a bright drive into work with plenty of sunshine through the afternoon. Low 80s expected in and around denver. Upper 80s a
Veered off the road at dia sunday. She was killed and 18 other High School Students and coaches went to the hospital. This morning there are still a lot of questions about why chopper crashed her bus. 9news reporter jessica oh is live at Legacy High School in broomfield. Jessica as the Investigation Continues her husband is just remembering his wife of 23 years. This week was supposed to Start College colors day and a week of homecoming celebrations. Instead monday students cried and showed their Legacy High School pride. While sending messages of support to their classmates and coaches. Students wore their School Shirts and colors monday. And used the hashtag legacy strong. Coaches wayne voorhees, matt rider are all still in the hospital. Now students and teachers are hoping School Spirit will help everyone make it through the week. The Broomfield Community is also coming together to support the coaches and the school. Last night a group of moms pitched in at a brewery. They organized
Making a ruling. Friends of the couple say this is the result of a tragic death, not a crime, mentioning that the wife was sick for the lass year. However, witnesses say they saw the man being taken away from the scene in handcuffs, with bags over his hands. Thats generally done to preserve aay type of evidence, including gunshot residue. We did a search through the denver sherifffs Department Inmate search, and we didnt find his name in the next half hour well hear from a family friend. Reporting in montbello, im amanda del castillo, denver 7. Heres your first alert that we have a few showers across southern colorado this morning. Some dense fog across the northeastern plains. Youll see a mix of sun and clouds in denver this afternoon. Heres a view of that fog from our viera wireless camera. Thats in limon. East on i70 youll be running into that if youre heading into kansas. Temperatures now, upper 40s, noon. Chance for a few thunderstorms this afternoon. But our highs today a good, p