"A bullet hole in a [vacant] vehicle's driver side and a shot-up stop sign were found in Fort Collins on Friday, .... 'These incidents do not appear to have any connection to the shootings currently being investigated by the multi-agency task force [said an unidentified police source]'."
They don't, indeed, have much in common with the NOCO shootings or shatterings - which is probably why we're hearing about them at all. The NOCO Task Force have said that it's member agencies won't generally talk about incidents under investigation in connection with the NOCO shootings, including the window shatterings.
* (In fact, while putting together my source cites, I noticed that Windsor PD has recently taken down its "Civic Alert" page, which used to address the NOCO shootings investigation.)
So unless the press hears about a window shattering on its own, and gets to it in time, we presumably wouldn't be hearing about it. I wonder if the Task Force might be regretting that policy now that the shootings seem to have stopped (none since the 6/16/15 shattering on I-25 reported by the Westminster PD, which isn't part of the Task Force). What's a Pub. Info. Officer to say, "we interrupt our no comment policy to bring you the following good news: there have been no new actual shootings, and road debris vs. window incidents have dropped from an average of more than three a week during the mid-April thru mid-June period, to none."
Forager, seems the NOCO Shooter/SK Task Force remains in the minimize, down play, nothing here-move along, & de-emphasize the importance of public safety information mode> interpretation; 'has the cat got your tongue mode'..
While reading up on the noco shooter case, I ran across an interesting 06/20/2015 article by Joe Moylan;
jmoylan@greeleytribune.com;
ISIS, other groups look to recruit youth, and Greeley schools, law enforcement are taking the threat seriously
http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/16881936-113/isis-other-groups-look-to-recruit-youth-and
Last fall, two teenage sisters and students at Overland High School in Aurora skipped school one day to join the radical Islamic State in Syria.
They took cash stolen from their parents and passports, boarded a flight destined for Frankfurt, Germany and planned to continue on to Turkey, where they would likely cross the border into Syria.
The girls were intercepted in Frankfurt by Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents and returned to their families in Denver.
Investigators would later learn the girls were influenced, but not completely radicalized, by a sophisticated social media propaganda machine run by ISIS. Federal officials recently estimated ISIS makes about 100 million social media contacts per day.
The incident forced the Greeley and Weld County law enforcement communities to take notice. If two girls from Aurora — a mere 60 miles away — could be lured to the Islamic State, then the same thing could happen to children anywhere. As strange as it seems, Greeley and its surrounding county could even be considered a bigger, more fertile target than Aurora. Greeley police and Greeley-Evans District 6 are taking the threat seriously.
Following last fall’s incident — as well as another involving Shannon Conley, who converted to Islam and was sentenced to four years in prison for attempting to join ISIS overseas — the Denver Muslim community reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado seeking assistance with the shocking new recruitment phenomenon.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office responded by creating a committee of representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the National Counter-terrorism Center, said John Walsh, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado. The committee first scheduled meetings last fall at Denver area mosques and community centers to hear the public’s concerns. The local team later expanded into Denver metro school districts, the Colorado Muslim Speakers Bureau and a variety of community organizations.
“The Muslim community in Denver was shocked by what happened last year,” Walsh said. “This didn’t seem like the kind of thing that could happen in Colorado.”
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Imo, the NOCO shooter/sniper/sk has been leaving investigators a tell tell calling card identifying himself as the shooter <other than ballistics> at the crime scenes; sending them a message..
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/u...stigate-northern-colorado-shootings.html?_r=0
Family and friends at the funeral on May 22 of John Jacoby, a 47-year-old man who was shot and killed while riding his bicycle down a country road, in Windsor, Colo. Credit Joshua Polson/The Greeley Tribune, via Associated Press
The random shootings of a bicyclist killed on a county road and a woman shot in the neck as she drove home from work have stirred unease across suburban communities in northern Colorado and prompted the local police, county sheriffs and the F.B.I. to form a task force to investigate.
On Thursday, questions about the unsolved shootings deepened after the police reported the death of a 65-year-old man who was found bleeding on a sidewalk just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday in downtown Loveland, Colo., about 15 miles away from the earlier shootings.
In a statement, the police said they were investigating whether his death was tied to the other attacks, which occurred in April and May...
The shootings have rattled some residents. The death of the bicyclist in the town of Windsor was the town’s first homicide in about eight years, the police said. The shootings have prompted the F.B.I. to offer a $10,000 reward and caused the organizer of a triathlon to cancel the race out of safety concerns.
The attacks remain largely a mystery. The police have said that the first two victims appear to have been randomly targeted, and that they have evidence linking their shootings. But they have not provided any details and have declined to say whether there is any ballistic evidence to connect the shootings.
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"Has there been any special events or large NOCO gatherings cancelled lately"?