The town of Elizabeth ordered a shelter-in-place after issuing a code red Tuesday morning. Few details were immediately available, but residents reported police activity, including from the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office and neighboring Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
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The Elizabeth Police Department posted on Facebook at 9:10 a.m. “Increased police activity in the 100 block of E. Spruce St. Please avoid the area.”
At 9:33 a.m., the town posted on Facebook that the Town Hall was closed for town business but being used as a shelter:
“The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office and the Town of Elizabeth Police Department issued a “Shelter in Place” order for the area of 175 Spruce Street due to law enforcement activity in the area of the Fitzgerald Apartments. Please avoid the area. Residents are asked to remain in place until additional information is available. If you are in the immediate area, please remain in your homes and or businesses until additional information is provided. If you cannot ‘Shelter in Place’ you are free to come to Town Hall for assistance. More information will become available, but as this is a fluid event, involving several law enforcement departments, your cooperation is appreciated.”
The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred after officers attempted to execute a search warrant, but didn’t provide any other information.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said its SWAT team was requested to assist with an incident but couldn’t provide any other information.
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Armored SWAT vehicles were seen in the area after having been brought to the area on flatbed trucks and fire rescue vehicles were staged all around the area of South Elbert and East Spruce Streets.
Armored police vehicles were seen in the 100 block of Spruce Street in Elizabeth, Colorado on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024.
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Elizabeth is about 50 miles southeast of Denver and 15 miles east of Castle Rock. It has a population of about 1,600 people.
Residents told CBS News Colorado they didn’t know anything about what was going on, they were just told to shelter in place.
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“I heard the cops saying ‘come out with your hands up’ and then heard some gunshots and then it was- they told me to go in the house, shelter in place,” Shelly Kliner said. “I wasn’t really scared at first now of course I’m wondering what’s going on, so- still don’t know.”
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Austen Erblat is a digital producer and assignment editor at CBS News Colorado and is Covering Colorado First. Originally from South Florida, he’s been working as a journalist in Denver since 2022.
Police in Northern Colorado are investigating after a crash involving multiple vehicles claimed the life of a pedestrian.
The Greeley Police Department received reports of a crash at the 5500 block of Highway 34 around 5:50 p.m. on Monday. When officers arrived, they discovered that two vehicles were involved in a crash with a 19-year-old woman who attempted to walk across the highway.
Police said there was no crosswalk in the area, and she was struck by the driver’s side of a Chevrolet Blazer. The impact knocked the woman into the inside lane, where she was struck by a Chevrolet Traverse. A witness told officers they saw the woman crossing the roadway ‘as traffic arrived at her location.’
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First responders attempted life-saving measures on the woman at the scene before she was taken to North Colorado Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. GPD said the Weld County Coroner’s Office will release her identity at a later time.
Neither driver involved was injured in the crash. Police said they don’t expect charges to be filed against those drivers at the moment, but the case remains under investigation. The police department asked anyone with information on the crash to contact Officer Ed Kubala at Edward.Kubala@greeleypd.com.
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While Colorado ranks near the middle of U.S. states for carbon emissions per capita, it still produces enough CO2 per person to rival countries on the World Bank’s list of top emitters internationally.
In 2023, Colorado produced 13.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. If it had been ranked by the World Bank during the same year, Colorado would have placed 14th among the more than 200 countries on the list, just behind Canada, at 14.1, and just ahead of the U.S. as a whole, at 13.7.
Among U.S. states, Colorado ranked 26th in carbon emissions per capita. Wyoming had the highest per capita emissions in the country, at 92.9 metric tons, while Maryland had the lowest, at 7.8.
Most of Colorado’s emissions come from energy production and consumption, primarily natural gas and oil production and electric power production and consumption.
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Colorado State Energy Profile, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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2023 Colorado Statewide Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, pg. 128, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, November 2024. Source link
Senate Bill 24-230 Oil and Gas Production Fees, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December, 2025. Source link
Senate Bill 23-016 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Measures, Colorado General Assembly, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Carbon dioxide emissions, World Bank Group, 2024, accessed in December 2025. Source link
Energy-related CO2 emission data tables, U.S. Energy Information Administration, accessed in December 2025. Source link
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