Colorado double murder suspect threatened roommate before shooting, would

The person accused of taking pictures and killing his roommate and one other individual in a dorm on the College of Colorado- Colorado Springs campus final Friday, Feb. 16, appeared in El Paso County Courtroom on Friday morning. The affidavit detailing what occurred main up the lethal taking pictures and the arrest of Nicholas Jordan reveals some rigidity between the roommates and threats remodeled trash. 

Jordan has been accused of two counts of first-degree homicide for the deaths of Samuel Knopp, 24, a registered UCCS scholar from Parker, and Celie Rain Montgomery, who was from Pueblo. Jordan, 25, is from Detroit and is enrolled as a scholar at UCCS.

Jordan and Knopp have been roommates, together with one other man. They lived in a dorm described as a “POD” with a typical space and 4 particular person bedrooms with locking doorways. Knopp and Montgomery have been discovered shot to dying in Knopp’s bed room. 

One bed room belonged to Jordan and a 3rd bed room belonged to the person who referred to as police after he heard the gunshots and the sound of an individual moaning. A fourth bed room was unoccupied, in keeping with the affidavit. 

In keeping with the affidavit, there had been complaints of Jordan smoking marijuana, cigarettes and leaving his trash out. There had additionally been a number of incidents the place Knopp and the opposite roommate had reported Jordan for unsafe dwelling circumstances and smoking within the room. 

The courtroom paperwork element an argument that occurred in January between Knopp and Jordan over a bag of trash. Jordan apparently threatened Knopp and instructed him he would “Kill Him” and there can be penalties if Jordan was requested to take out the trash once more. 

Jordan was arrested in Colorado Springs on Monday morning and the choose set a $5 million bond at a listening to on Tuesday. 

The UCCS campus is positioned alongside Austin Bluffs Parkway in northeast Colorado Springs. It’s considered one of 4 universities within the College of Colorado system. The others are in Boulder, Denver and Aurora (the College of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus).  

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