This article describes crime in the U.S. state of Colorado.
[2] Capital punishment is not applied in this state.
[3] Two of the country's largest mass shootings have occurred in Colorado: the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 and the Aurora movie theater massacre in 2012.
[citation needed] In 2004, Marvin Heemeyer, a business owner, used a modified bulldozer to smash into light poles, trees and buildings in Granby, Colorado.
[citation needed] The Diol-Beye family murders occurred on August 5, 2020, where 5 members of a family were killed in an arson blaze, believed to be the house of a different group involved with a stolen iPhone.