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Husband says wife killed their son, then shot herself near Steamboat Springs
ROUTT COUNTY, Colo. -- A woman shot and killed her 9-year-old son and then shot herself at a home near Steamboat Springs Wednesday, according to the woman's husband.
Deputies from the Routt County Sheriff's Office were called to a home on a report of an attempted suicide with multiple victims at 2:55 a.m.
Investigators say the resident of the home, Michael Kirlan met deputies and told them his son was dead inside the house, and his wife, Lisa Marie Lesyshen, 45, was upstairs with a gun.
They found the boy, 9-year-old Asher and then his mother. She was unconscious with a gunshot wound. Paramedics took her to the Yampa Valley Medical Center for treatment.
The boy was a third-grader at Soda Creek Elementary in Steamboat Springs according to Steamboat Today.
A crisis management team met with parents at Soda Creek Elementary School on Wednesday morning to tell them about Asher's death and to help prepare them for talking about what happened with their children.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is assisting Routt County officials with the investigation.
DENVER - A man and a woman were arrested early Thursday on suspicion of trying to stab the woman's ex-husband to death.
Wheat Ridge Police responded at 12:53 a.m. to a house in the 3700 block of Vance Street in Wheat Ridge on reports of an assault. There they found a 41-year-old man suffering from multiple knife wounds to his face, neck and chest. He remains hospitalized following multiple surgeries.
Witnesses at the scene described seeing a gray car without a front bumper leaving the scene. Police eventually found the car and arrested 33-year-old James Bryant and 32-year-old Nicole Ferrara near the scene of the alleged crime. Both suspects are being held on charges of attempted first-degree murder.
It was determined that the victim is Ferrara's ex-husband.
Deputies: Wife to be arrested in Jefferson County stabbing
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. - Investigators say a woman in Jefferson County will be arrested for the stabbing death of her husband on Monday.
Deputies were called to a home on West Ontario Place, near West Coal Mine Avenue and South Wadsworth Boulevard, just before 9 a.m. after neighbors saw a man bleeding on the front lawn.
When deputies arrived, they said they found the man's wife, Sandra Lee Schreiber, inside the home, suffering from a stab wound as well.
Sandra and Michael Schreiber were both taken to Littleton Hospital, where Michael died.
Deputies said they have determined that Sandra stabbed Michael, and that Sandra's wound was self-inflicted.
Sandra is still hospitalized.
Investigators said Sandra will be booked on suspicion of first degree murder after she is released from the hospital.
Colorado woman accused of stabbing husband with scissors
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--A 61-year-old woman has been arrested after her husband was stabbed in the back and stomach with a pair of scissors.
Colorado Springs police say they were called to a home on Sunday after a woman identified as Jerolyn Hanenberg called 911 and reported that she had just stabbed her husband.
The man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. The woman is facing charges of attempted murder.
'In the aftermath of the guilty verdict in Steubenville, Ohio, parents should be taking this opportunity to ask themselves this painful question. But what parent can even contemplate that a child they love could so callously disregard someone's basic human rights? At the same time, the media is filled with experts chastising parents for not being involved with their kids and wanting to be a friend instead of a parent.
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We must talk to our kids as possible perpetrators and bystanders. And our advice about what to say has got to go beyond, "How would you feel if this happened to your mother or sister?" First, no one has any idea what the perpetrator's relationship is like with those women in his life, but it's not a huge leap to think he doesn't hold a great deal of respect for them. Second, these boys have dehumanized their victim. In that moment, they don't care.'