{"id":104446,"date":"2024-02-23T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/suspect-in-university-of-colorado-dorm-murders-had-ak-47-style-assault-rifle-when-arrested-prosecutors\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:04:05","slug":"suspect-in-university-of-colorado-dorm-murders-had-ak-47-style-assault-rifle-when-arrested-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/suspect-in-university-of-colorado-dorm-murders-had-ak-47-style-assault-rifle-when-arrested-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in University of Colorado dorm murders had AK-47-style assault rifle when arrested: Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-23\/GETTYRF_72122_JuryCourtroom%2819%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mint Images\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A student at the University of Colorado &#8211; Colorado Springs who is accused of gunning down two people in a dorm room had an AK-47-style assault rifle and a handgun in his car when he was arrested, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Jordan was arrested on Monday and charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of his roommate, Samuel Knopp, and Celie Rain Montgomery, who were found shot dead on Feb. 16, according to the Colorado Springs police.<\/p>\n<p>Knopp, 24, was a registered student at the school while Montgomery, 26, was not currently registered, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors described Jordan, 25, as a relatively new student in the process of withdrawing from UCCS.<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the murders is not clear.<\/p>\n<p>As Jordan appeared in court in person for the first time on Friday, the judge ruled the arrest warrant and affidavit to be unsealed.<\/p>\n<p>A status conference has been scheduled for March 15.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mint Images\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; A student at the University of Colorado &#8211; Colorado Springs who is accused of gunning down two people in a dorm room had an AK-47-style assault rifle and a handgun in his car when he was arrested, according to prosecutors. Nicholas Jordan was arrested<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/suspect-in-university-of-colorado-dorm-murders-had-ak-47-style-assault-rifle-when-arrested-prosecutors\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}