Colorado Springs police have identified the two people found shot to death Friday morning in a University of Colorado dorm room.
One of them, 24-year-old Samuel Knopp, was a student at the Colorado Springs campus of the school while the second victim, 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery, was not, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
An autopsy has been conducted but the El Paso County Coroner’s Office has not yet released cause and manner of death. Police said they were investigating both deaths a homicides.
Campus police responded to a call about shots fired at the Crestone House dormitory on the campus just before 6 a.m. on Friday. They called in Colorado Springs police when they found the bodies, as CrimeOnline reported.
“At this point in our investigation, this incident does not appear to be a murder-suicide and both deaths are being investigated as homicides,” the the police department said on Friday.
“Investigative efforts so far continue to indicate this is an isolated incident between parties that were known to one another and not a random attack against the school or other students at the university,” police added on Sunday.
Detectives said they had kept in contact with the victims’ families as they investigated, and said the families had asked for privacy at this time.
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[Featured image: A police officer outside the Village at Alpine Valley Friday morning/Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP]
