Photo: Sam Knopp | From Facebook: Colorado Springs Musicians > Anthony Scornavacco: Sam Knopp was a former member of my band æternum and we are planning on putting on a memorial concert for him. Sam was one of two victims found dead at UCCS. His family is also friends with the owners of the venue we will be performing at.
If anyone wants to come remember Sam Knopp with his former band, I have tickets available at this link below. æternum will be donating half of all our ticket sales to Sam’s family and we will be raffling off a guitar and all proceeds from that will also go toward his funeral costs. https://wl.seetickets.us/event/aeternum/589471?afflky=SunshineStudiosLive&fbclid=IwAR1JF8BxA-jg4_yzrCrCfUkPq1b_vI2x5EG1C81XgnUd8exckgTGPHA8haY
April 26th at Sunshine Studios
Sunshine Studios Live
3970 Clearview Frontage Road, Colorado Springs, CO, 80911
Sadie Lauren Spittle: My friend Sam Knopp was a victim in the Colorado Spring dorm shooting the other day. He moved to Estes Park at the same time as my family. He was one of my brother’s first friends [after] moving to a new state. He was the silliest, kindest and most polite person I’ve ever met. He had a love for music and dedicated his studies to it. Thank you for being such a good friend to my brother, and me. You made everyone you met feel so loved. I am so lucky to have known you. Gun violence needs to end!!! Your thoughts and prayers aren’t bringing any of these kids back or fixing anything. HUG YOUR LOVED ONES NOW
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Police Seek Answers in Shooting Deaths in Dorm at College in Colorado Springs
By Christopher Cann, USA Today | Investigators on Tuesday continued piecing together what led to a shooting that left two people dead inside a dormitory at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in which a student was arrested.
Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was taken into custody on Monday on two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting that killed Samuel Knopp, a 24-year-old student at the university, and Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, who was not enrolled in the school.
Police said the Friday incident was isolated and that Jordan knew Knopp and Montgomery but did not provide any additional details. Jordan was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
Here’s what we know so far:
Officers with the campus police department were called to Crestone House, an on-campus dormitory, after shots were heard around 6 a.m. Friday.
Inside a dorm room, officers found two bodies, triggering an hourslong campus lockdown as investigators worked to determine whether there was an active shooter.
At the request of the university police, the Colorado Springs Police Department took over the investigation. By Friday night, officers had Jordan’s name and attained a warrant for his arrest.
“This incident does not appear to be a murder-suicide and both deaths are being investigated as homicides,” the city police said Friday in a post on X.
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“As we mourn the loss of Samuel Knopp and Celie Montgomery, my hope is that we will come together as a community, support one another and share in our grief. Please remember that you are not alone,” Chancellor Jennifer Sobanet wrote in an email to students.
Sobanet described Knopp as an “accomplished guitar player and an extremely talented musician” who was “a beloved member of the Visual and Performing Arts department.”
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Read more here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-seek-answers-shooting-deaths-131710635.html
Contributing: Sarah Al-Arshani, Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Colorado Springs shooting: Nicholas Jordan arrested; motive sought
Photo: Sam Knopp | From his mother’s Facebook page: Amy Elswick Knopp
Benefit Set Up to Help Out the Family of Colorado Springs Musician Sam Knopp // Police Seek Answers in Shooting Deaths in Dorm at College in Colorado Springs
