Month: May 2025

Karla Sosa

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)- Police departments across the nation are honoring fallen officers; it’s all part of National Police Week.

On Friday, the Colorado Springs Police Department hosted its 32nd Annual Pikes Peak Regional Peace Officers Memorial at Memorial Park. 

Chief Adrian Vasquez with the Colorado Springs Police Department said this service serves as a healing process for families and officers of fallen officers. 

“We want to show support not only to their families, but to the officers’ service that they gave themselves and then really inspire our officers that are continuing to serve every single day,” said Vasquez.

In September 2023 Community Parole Officer Christine Guerin Sandoval was killed in a hit-and-run while trying to serve an arrest warrant. 

Her name is already on the Peace Officers’ Memorial at Memorial Park in Colorado Springs. 

This month, her name was added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Families and officers were able to pay their respects and see portraits of fallen officers, including Guerin-Sandoval. 

“I love the fact that you see families walking around the perimeter here, looking at the names, really paying homage to the service that was given. And I think being able to come together and just talk,” said Vasquez.

Chief Vasquez said they know they have a tough job, which is why they have close relationships with other departments.

“We’re still obviously out there supporting each other, making sure that we’re taking care of one another and, you know, paying caution to that,” said Vasquez.

In 1962, President Kennedy proclaimed May 15th as National Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the calendar week in which May 15th falls, as National Police Week.

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Heather Skold

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Mother’s Day takes on a different tone for JoAnn Madorran, who lost her son to an improvised explosive device while he was deployed to Iraq.

Madorran is a Gold Star Mother.  A title she never asked for– yet lives with courage. 

Jeffrey Allen Avery had not been in Iraq a year when he was killed on April 23, 2007.  He was just 19. 

“He was very determined.  He was very proud or what he did — and he should be,” said Madorran.  “He always went by the book.”

Jeffrey Allen Avery, prior to his deployment to Iraq

Avery, who was posthumously promoted to Private First Class, was a military policeman and wanted to follow in the footsteps of so many of his relatives serving his country.

Madorran remembers when Avery came home during that brief break between boot camp and his deployment, and how he had matured, both emotionally and physically. 

“They leave a child, they come back a man,” she smiled.  

When she was told he would be headed to Iraq, it didn’t sit well, said Madorran. 

“I had kind of a strange gut feeling when he told me that I didn’t take it that well.”

Avery was in the country on patrol for less than a year when she received the news that would change her life.

“It was quick, they said, that he didn’t really have a chance at life.”

Grief crippled her many days; sometimes she didn’t feel like leaving the house.

Jeffrey as a child

“It’s something that’s changed me for the rest of my life. It’s always going to be there,” she revealed. “What’s worse is, I’ve been robbed of knowing him as an adult.”

Madorran is actively invested in the local Gold Star Mothers chapter, where she mentors other mothers who’ve more recently lost their children in combat. It’s there she finds comfort in their commonality, while supporting veterans in the Pikes Peak Region as they do community service.  It’s in that role, she tells fellow Gold Star Moms they’re not alone.

“I tell them, you can pick up the phone anytime, day or night, I don’t care if it’s 2:00 in the morning.  I’m here for you.”

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Celeste Springer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – A new Consumer Reports study claims that Kroger, which owns King Soopers, has been advertising marked-down prices on products, but customers are still paying more at the register.

According to the report, the agency found that the average overcharge cost customers was about 18.4% more at checkout.

Consumer Reports believes the problem lies with old/expired sales tags not being removed after a sale is over.

Consumer Reports said they began investigating after union members in Colorado began calling attention to the alleged issue, “a problem they say has been going on for years and that Kroger is well aware of.”

The agency said it dispatched people to Kroger and Kroger-owned stores across the country to investigate.

UFCW Local 7, the union representing King Soopers and City Market employees in Colorado, says it sought to investigate as well. The union alleges every single one of the stores they went out to had “misleading prices leading to the over-charging of consumers.”

The union claims the issue is due to understaffing, with not enough staff able to go through and properly vet and remove old sale tags.

“When Kroger dictates that workers’, hours be cut in these stores, it is customers who pay the price,” said Kim Cordova, UFCW Local 7 President, in a release.

King Soopers has fired back at the allegations, releasing the following statement:

“The Consumer Reports allegations boil down to misinformation, reviewing a handful of discrete issues from billions of daily transactions. It in no way reflects the seriousness with which we take our transparent and affordable pricing.”

-Spokesperson for King Soopers

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Celeste Springer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Fire Department (CSFD) says they’re working a grass fire near I-25 and South Nevada Avenue.

CSFD says multiple crews are responding.

While CSFD said the fire is near Nevada, a KRDO13 crew says fire crews can be seen off Tejon Street near Dorchester Park.

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