Harm From Monday Night Murders Ripples Through Denver Arts Community

December 29, 2021 / Shannon Young / Featured, Morning Magazine

Details about a series of shootings Monday night that started in Denver and ended in Lakewood are coming into focus. Five people were murdered; Alicia Cardenas, Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado, Danny Scofield, Sarah Steck and Michael Swinyard. Three others were wounded, including Jimmy Maldonado – husband of Alyssa Gunn-Maldonado.

The shooter – killed by a wounded police woman – has been identified as a former owner of a tattoo shop who was known to law enforcement and reportedly had a history of psychiatric episodes and of public ideations of violence.

As news of the identities of those murdered sent shock waves through Denver’s arts scene Tuesday morning, KGNU News Director Shannon Young spoke with Elena Klaver; longtime KGNU volunteer programmer and friend of Alicia Cardenas.

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Fundraiser for family of Alicia Cardenas https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-Cardenas-family

Fundraiser for the Gunn and Maldonado family https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-the-gunn-maldonado-family

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The April selection for the Radio Bookclub is Go As A River by Colorado author Shelley Read.

This novel introduces readers to Victoria Nash who is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado.

She is the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men.

Her life changes forever when she meets Wilson Moon, a young drifter, displaced from his tribal land in the Four Corners region.

Victoria must navigate love and loss while her home town drowns under the rising waters of the Gunnison River.

The Radio Bookclub is a collaboration between KGNU and the Boulder Bookstore and is broadcast on the 4th Thursday of every month at 9am. The entire series, including Afterhours at the Radio Bookclub, is available as a podcast.

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