I don't think that they have ever stopped for more than a couple of weeks at a time since they started early in the year. After a very active period in the late spring, the last report of a classic, stealthy, side or back window NOCO window shattering came thru on 6/16/15. We heard rumors of another on 7/22/15, and then silence for another month. Had they stopped? Were they continuing but not coming to light, because LE was following the NOCO Task Force's declared policy of not passing on news of the case? There was an 8/20/15 report of a classic I-25 shattering (picked up by the Colorodoan from a scanner feed) and then another two in quick succession. We soon also learned from the Larimer CSO that it had "
received reports of shattered windows on I-25 throughout the summer." So we know that some minority of incidents were coming thru despite Task Force policy, but not nearly all.
Are we enjoying a haitus, for now, in the NOCO shatterings? The answer depends partly on how you group the incidents and what qualifies as a NOCO shattering. The last classic I-25 shattering for which we have a report was on 8/23/15 - 20 days ago. After that we have have a number of incidents, but none that quite fit the classic mold for one reason or another. In one, a shooter brazenly shot a BB gun from a pickup in plain view of his victim, into her windshield, on Hwy 52 on 8/27/15. The next, on 8/31/15, was again - and again unusually - a windshield shot and it was a 50 mile drive west of I-25. The last was in Morrison, well south of Denver, on 8/31/15, the latest of an unreported series of four that Morrison PD now tells us had started in that area in mid July.
One person with an evolving MO and stalking ground? Two independant shooters? One group fielding different shooters with different approaches over time? I can't say, but he or they have been remarkably persistant over time. Here's a l
ink to the case map, which lists the incidents chronologically on the left of the screen.
