COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Children and adults near Vanguard Elementary had quite the start to the day Thursday after a naked man chased several students and tried to get into multiple vehicles before being arrested by police.

The man, identified as Christopher Ruiz, tried to run off when officers arrived to the scene near St. Elmo Street and Nevada Avenue.

Police said he had been running through traffic chasing kids on their way to school and trying to get into drivers’ vehicles.

After running off, Ruiz allegedly punched through the window of a home and got inside, but was confronted by the homeowner and forced back outside. He cut his arm in the process.

Once outside, two Colorado Springs officers were able to wrestle Ruiz to the ground and detain him. He was hospitalized because of the cut on his arm.

It’s unclear what charges Ruiz faces, and no mugshot was immediately available.

DENVER – An Aurora Police Department officer was shot in the face and narrowly escaped serious injury in the shootout with a murder suspect Tuesday afternoon.

Aurora and Denver police held a news conference Wednesday to give further details on what turned into a confusing officer-involved shooting incident that spanned two cities.

Aurora police were first called out to Del Mar Circle Tuesday after a person with a weapon was reported. When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds at the scene. The man was taken to an area hospital, where he died.

That man was identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office Wednesday as 35-year-old Antonio Norwood.

Witnesses at the scene told officers the suspect had left the shooting scene in a black Chevrolet Monte Carlo, and gave police the car’s license plate number.

The plate was traced back to an address on 46th Avenue in Denver, where Denver and Aurora police went and found the Monte Carlo.

The suspect, identified by the Denver OMI as 23-year-old Juan Ramos, came out of a home on the street carrying an infant in a baby carrier, which he placed inside the car.

Officers decided to try and arrest Ramos then, pulling up on him in an unmarked vehicle, according to DPD. The department says Ramos started to shoot at officers, three of whom returned fire.

DPD confirmed two officers from APD and one DPD officer shot at Ramos, who later died.

An Aurora officer who was driving the department’s tactical vehicle was shot in the face during the exchange.

The officer, who has not been identified, was shot just inches below his right eye, according to a photo of the wound released by police Wednesday.

“Had that round taken a different trajectory or been a half-inch higher or lower, it would have been a different story,” Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz said. “We would have been planning a funeral.”

Though the officer hasn’t been identified, Metz said he has been with the department since 2003 and was recently assigned to the SWAT team.

“I feel this is a miracle, if not a blessing that he is still with us,” Metz said.

The officer earned a service ribbon in 2015 for his handling of an armed suicidal person, and another award in 2011 for rescuing a shooting victim, according to Metz.

Metz thanked DPD for their response, and gave extra gratitude to the DPD officer who drove the wounded officer to the Anschutz Medical Center in their patrol car. He also thanked the hospital for its work on the officer and for helping getting his family to Colorado.

Police said the baby in the the suspect’s car is “fine” after being checked out and is now with other family members.

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – The suspect accused of planting a bomb outside the Nederland Police Department last month pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday.

David Ansberry, 64, was denied bond after his plea, as prosecutors argued he was a danger to society and a flight risk, which the judge agreed with.

Prosecutors said the bomb left outside police headquarters contained arsenic and was designed to go off instantly, and that Ansberry posed a threat to society should he be released since he allegedly is capable of building such a device.

Ansberry is charged with use or attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He was indicted on the charge Nov. 2.

Ansberry allegedly dropped the explosive device off in backpack outside the police station sometime in the early-morning hours of Oct. 11. An officer took it into police headquarters before realizing the explosive was inside. Bomb squads eventually detonated the backpack.

Days later, Ansberry was captured in the Chicago area. He was identified as the suspect by people who had seen him near the police station around the time the bomb was place.

Another identifier was an old “STP” sticker placed on a business nearby, which led authorities to Ansberry because he was associated with the STP Family, a gang of mostly transients that lived in the Boulder area in the 1960s and ‘70s.

He will remain in custody pending his next court date, which has yet to be set.

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – The head football coach at Niwot High School faces charges after he allegedly choked and kneed a student in the groin for cursing in class last week.

Boulder County sheriff’s deputies arrested Dylan Hollingsworth, 43, of Longmont, Friday morning. He was booked on second-degree assault and third-degree assault charges. The first is a felony and the latter is a misdemeanor.

The alleged assault happened on Thursday, Oct. 27. Hollingsworth had allegedly taken issue with a 17-year-old student’s use of profanity in a weightlifting class, and warned his students that the next person who cursed would face punishment and “might possible be hit or kicked,” according to the sheriff’s office.

At some point shortly after the warning, according to the sheriff’s office, the 17-year-old student cursed while singing a song, to which Hollingsworth allegedly responded by applying “pressure to the student’s larynx, causing the student to struggle to breathe.”

Hollingsworth then allegedly kneed to the student in the groin. At some point, a school resource officer found out about the alleged assault and reported it.

After turning himself in Friday morning, Hollingsworth was booked and released. He is next due in court on Dec. 8.

The school did not comment on the matter only saying that it is a personnel issue and an ongoing investigation.

BUENA VISTA, Colo. – Authorities announced Thursday that a 39-year-old cold case murder has been solved, but the accused suspect will never spend a day in prison because he’s been dead for 35 years.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation reopened the murder case of Audrey Hurtado, 17, in 2009. She was stabbed to death and her body left in a Buena Vista field in July 1977. She had gone on a walk, but never returned. Hurtado’s body was found three days later.

Buena Vista police and the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Department were among the agencies that worked to eventually identify 80 possible suspects, who were all investigated.

A 15-year-old boy who was visiting Buena Vista from California at the time, whom investigators have identified only as “C.K.,” was among the suspects because he had stolen a knife similar to the one believed to be used in the murder from a store that week.

C.K. was staying at a home just one block from Hurtado’s sister’s house, with whom she was staying at the time.

Investigators never found enough evidence to file charges against C.K., and he was killed in a motorcycle crash in California in 1981.

But law enforcement officers investigating the case at the time were able to collect biological samples from Hurtado and another person whose DNA was found other her fingernails. Buena Vista police said the sample collection was “exemplary” police work considering DNA testing was not available in 1977.

After CBI reopened the case in May 2009, agents interviewed witnesses again and collected more evidence.

The samples collected from underneath Hurtado’s fingernails were tested with new DNA technology, and when cross-examined with DNA samples from members of C.K.’s family, investigators matched the DNA to C.K.

Buena Vista police say the match was presented to the Chaffee County District Attorney, who determined the case was solved.

CBI agents have since met with Hurtado’s family members to tell them about who her killer was and how they identified him.

More stories on Colorado cold cases can be found here.

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. – A Douglas County bomb squad detonated two explosive devices found inside a Castle Rock home.

Douglas County Sheriff’s Capt. Darren Weekly says the items were dangerous but required additional manipulation to become bombs.

Authorities discovered them Monday while investigating suspicious chemicals found inside of a house. The discovery prompted the evacuation of up to 30 homes in a Castle Rock subdivision near the Plum Creek Golf Course. The devices were safely detonated inside the golf course.

The evacuations were lifted early Tuesday morning after Castle Rock police, FBI agents and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investigated the situation.

The box of chemicals was found at or a house in the 400 block of West Prestwick Way in Castle Rock Monday morning.

Castle Rock police say the department arrested two teens Sunday night after neighbors reported they were acting suspiciously, and when officers told the parents of one of the children at their home Monday morning, the officers found a small box of chemicals, prompting the call to hazmat crews with Douglas County.

A spokesman with Castle Rock police said at an afternoon conference that after Douglas County bomb squads went through the house, they called in the FBI and ATF, which have more sophisticated equipment. The evacuations were ordered out of “an abundance of caution.”

He said the chemicals in question were found inside the house and on the back porch. The hazmat crews had yet to identify the chemicals. The city spokeswoman said everyone in the area had been notified of the situation.

The two juveniles remain in custody on charges unrelated to the possible explosives. The teens are high school aged. Authorities say one had an extensive knowledge of chemicals.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office investigated a possible social media threat earlier Monday, but that threat has not been linked to the explosives investigation at this time.

PARKER, Colo. – Authorities on Thursday morning released the body camera video from a Parker police officer who shot and killed a man accused of shooting Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Detective Dan Brite on Sept. 2.

Detective Brite is paralyzed from the waist down after he was allegedly shot by Randall Rodick, 40, in the incident near Sierra Vista in Parker. Brite is now being treated at Craig Hospital after being transferred from Parker Adventist on Oct. 6.

Parker officers and deputies with Douglas County were called out to the Sierra Vista area of Parker that day to help with Rodick, who was reported as being suicidal.

When officers arrived to Rodick’s home, he allegedly shot at the law enforcement officers and drove away, eventually crashing near Lifetime Fitness and once again exchanging gunfire with officers. Authorities have said an AK-47 and drum magazine were found at the scene.

Brite was shot in the exchange, but Parker Police Department Officer Ronnie Dorrell shot and killed Rodick shortly afterward.

Released Thursday at a news conference at the Parker Police Department were the full officer-involved shooting review from the 18^th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, as well as the body camera video showing Officer Dorrell shooting Rodick.

Editor’s Note: The full video released by Parker PD can be seen in the player above. Denver7 has censored two curse words and blurred the body of Rodick, but the rest of the video remains unchanged.

District Attorney George Brauchler in the report determined Officer Dorrell’s shooting of Rodick was justified.

The report contains a rundown of the body camera video.

In the video, Officer Dorrell is seen stopping his car, running up to a staging area past several civilians, and taking cover while he waited for orders.

He is told to get closer to the scene, and gets in another cruiser to drive closer to the active scene. While driving closer to where Rodick was at the time, an officer on the radio says that shots were fired.

Dorrell arrives close to where Rodick had ended up and runs behind another squad car for cover. There, he fires at least one shot from his AR-15 rifle, hitting Rodick, after which he tells fellow officers over the radio the “suspect [is] down.”

As Dorrell and other officers secure the scene, they repeatedly say the Rodick is “down” and they call for medical attention.

Another officer says a handgun was found inside the RV and was secured.

Another officer asks, “Who got hit?”

“DB,” one officer says, referring to Brite. “F—, is he all right?” another officer asks, to which one of the officers at the scene says, “No.”

Dorrell tells the officers he took the shot that took down Rodick after one speculates Rodick shot himself.

The rest of the officers check themselves and one another to be sure they weren’t hit, and a commander at the scene tells Dorrell to be sure his safety is on (it is).

The commander tells Dorrell to come with him to be briefed after he confirms he fired his weapon.

The department also included a map that shows the movements of Rodick and Officer Dorrell, which is embedded below.

Parker Police Chief David King was joined at the news conference by a Parker police commander, Castle Rock Police Chief Jack Cauley and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Chief Steve Johnson.