According to a news release from Colorado Springs police on Monday afternoon, Nicholas Trevon Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was taken into custody early on Monday morning on suspicion of two charges of first-degree murder.
On Friday night, investigators were able to secure a warrant for Jordan, and they have been looking for him ever since.
According to the agency, Jordan was taken into custody at 8:37 a.m. after police discovered him in a car in the 4900 block of Cliff Point Circle East in Colorado Springs.
At the time of the incident, Jordan was enrolled at UCCS, according to Jenna Press, a campus spokesperson.
The victims, a 24-year-old male and a 26-year-old woman, were named on Sunday as Samuel Knopp of Parker, 24, and Celie Rain Montgomery of Pueblo, 26
Classes and activities at UCCS were postponed on Monday as a result of the shooting, but a “healing walk” was organized for students and the community to commemorate Knopp and Montgomery. Students at the walk said it was a crucial time for their friends to sort out their feelings after a gloomy and frightening weekend.
Monday at 2:00 p.m., hundreds of people, including city dwellers, faculty, staff, and university students, started the healing walk from the north end of campus to the center. In front of the mountain lion statue in the middle of campus, Campus Chief of Police Dewayne McCarver, Student Body President Axel Brown, and Chancellor Jennifer Sobanet gave remarks.
El Pomar Plaza, with a UCCS mountain lion statue at its center, is where the walk came to a close. In memory of the victims, participants hurriedly surrounded it with written tributes and covered it in roses.
Willow Kitchens wrote “suited up,” claiming to know Sam Knopp and having recently gone shopping with him for a new suit.
For several hours on Friday, the university was placed under lockdown while law enforcement investigated the possibility of an active shooter on campus. While they are still looking, the police have ruled out a murder-suicide.
“Investigative efforts so far continue to indicate this is an isolated incident between parties that were known to one another and not a random attack against the school or other students at the university,” police added.
Read Also – Driving Under Drugs: Zachery Ty Bryan Arrested