A Michigan man was arrested Monday on a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of two people, including his roommate, in a dormitory on the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, police said.
The man arrested, Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was also a student at the university. He faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of a fellow student, Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, Colo., and a campus visitor, Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, Colo., the police department said Colorado Springs. Monday in one series of statements on social media.
On Tuesday the authorities confirmed that Mr Jordan and Knop were roommates. They did not provide a motive or other details, including why Ms. Montgomery was on campus.
Caitlin Ford, a spokeswoman for the department, said Tuesday that police are still investigating what happened.
Mr. Jordan’s bond was raised from $1 million to $5 million, cash only, during an advisory hearing Tuesday afternoon. He was being held at the El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs.
Mr. Knopp was a senior studying music and Mr. Jordan was also enrolled, said Jenna Press, a university spokeswoman. The university’s 2023 music program included a video of Mr. Knopp playing guitar during his recital.
At about 6 a.m. Friday, campus police received a call about shots fired from Crestone House, a dormitory on the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, a city of about 480,000 at the base of the Rockies.
Campus police found two people dead in the room and called the Colorado Springs Police Department, which sent its homicide unit to investigate.
By Friday night, police had an arrest warrant, launching a search for Mr Jordan. Until Sunday, police called the shooting “an isolated incident between parties known to each other and not a random attack on the school or other students at the university.”
The search lasted throughout the weekend, until about 8 a.m. on Monday, when a motor vehicle theft unit found Mr. Jordan in a car in the city, the police said. He was arrested after about 30 minutes.
Students and officials held a “healing walk” on campus Monday, placing flowers at the base of a marble statue of a mountain lion, a symbol of the university and mascot for its sports teams.
Rebecca Carballo contributed to the report.
