Current Events > Denver hotel maid tips off police of an arsenal, preventing a mass shooting.

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DENVER Police feared a Las Vegas style shooting during the All-Star Game in Denver after receiving a tip from a maid working at a hotel not far from Coors Field, who discovered more than a dozen weapons and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition inside one of the rooms Friday night.

Multiple informed law enforcement sources connected with the investigation told Denver7s Liz Gelardi and Denver7 chief investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski that they intercepted the weapons inside a room on the eighth floor of the Maven Hotel as All-Star Game celebrations get underway.

Sources said police removed 16 long guns, body armor and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from the room with a balcony overlooking the downtown area. The sources said they feared the number of weapons, ammo, vantage point and large crowds could have resulted in a Las Vegas style shooting.
Based on the information provided by the hotel employee, police executed a search warrant and found the guns, ammo, body armor and a man inside the room on the eighth floor.

One of the suspects arrested Friday night had posted a message on Facebook referencing a recent divorce and saying he was going to go out in a big way, according to the multiple law enforcement sources.

SWAT teams responded to the Maven Hotel and Wazee Street was closed to the public as investigators combed the scene. One witness saw a car being loaded on a flatbed. Other witnesses said Denver Chief of Police Paul Pazen was one of the law enforcement officials investigating the scene at the hotel.

In total, three men and one woman were arrested Friday night, along with two vehicles which were also impounded to be processed for possible evidence.

Richard Platt, 42, for investigation of possession of a weapon by a previous offender, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute (two counts), and a warrant from another jurisdiction.

Gabriel Rodriguez, 48, for investigation of possession of a weapon by a previous offender, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

Ricardo Rodriguez, 44, for investigation of possession of a weapon by a previous offender.

Kanoelehua Serikawa, 43, for investigation of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and a warrant from another jurisdiction.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/crime/4-arrested-at-maven-hotel-police-feared-a-las-vegas-style-shooting-during-all-star-game-in-denver

This maid just saved so many lives with that tip.

i'm all for locking them up in prison for life. they're a danger to society.
especially the divorced fuck up.

obviously deserved that.
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Imagine just how much shit hotel maids must see.

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That maid is a fucking hero tbh

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Fuck yeah! Maids!

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I wish I was a cute Japanese maid

Hope she gets some kind of profitable recognition.

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It's incredibly rare for people to work cooperatively on a massacre so I hope some useful information can be extracted from them.

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Wow

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I'm so glad the people involved in this attempted massacre were stopped.

These are crazy days.

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Could have been a real disaster.

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ACAB though, right?

Glad they were able to avert disaster

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All maids are heroes. But this one especially.

Samurontai posted...

ACAB though, right?

Agreed.

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What kind of madness makes someone going through divorce collude with three people to plan an attack on unrelated innocents?

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Agreed.

Hates cops so much that he wouldnt really care if a mass shooting would have occurred

yikes

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I can't imagine having all that lying around in your room and like... not putting the "Do Not Disturb" sign up...

I'm glad these people were idiots and I'm glad the maid said something.

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Samurontai posted...

Hates cops so much that he wouldnt really care if a mass shooting would have occurred

yikes

I don't care how triggered you are, it is not impressive.

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Dude must have lost everything in the divorce for him to resort to want to kill multiple people and possibly himself.

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Glad the maid wasnt scared of getting backlash because of her suspicions. Person is a hero and glad they were there.

Life in jail for those 4 people hopefully.

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kingdrake2 posted...

i'm all for locking them up in prison for life. they're a danger to society.
especially the divorced fuck up.

obviously deserved that.

Yeah I agree 100 percent with you

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Life in prison or execution are the only suitable punishments for these bastards.

Extra "Fuck You" to that guy who thinks getting divorced is justification to murder innocent people.

Hoping the maid gets the recognition she deserves, she saved the lives of a lot of people. Thankfully the police did their jobs as well.

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Crazy to think the cops would never have known if it wasn't for the maid tipping them off.

Three previous offenders, some with warrants, still being able to acquire and possess that much weaponry is nuts.

Hexenherz posted...

I can't imagine having all that lying around in your room and like... not putting the "Do Not Disturb" sign up...

I'm glad these people were idiots and I'm glad the maid said something.

Tbf Im staying in a hotel this weekend and I had to sign a piece of paper saying that a maid could check my room once a day. Even if I had the do not disturb sign up or not


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Talib_21 posted...

Tbf Im staying in a hotel this weekend and I had to sign a piece of paper saying that a maid could check my room once a day. Even if I had the do not disturb sign up or not

I'm guessing that's a new hotel protocol after that mass shooting in Las Vegas.

I hope it's widely adopted, at least.

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Im not surprised, denver is covered from head to toe in graffiti and tents

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Samurontai posted...

Hates cops so much that he wouldnt really care if a mass shooting would have occurred

yikes

Remember when you werent a chronically triggered rightwing shitposter

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So basically they were working together to possibly commit a Las Vegas-style and size mass shooting each

Jesus Christ.
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FBI says there's no evidence this was a planned terrorist incident.

Interesting.
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Bio1590 posted...

FBI says there's no evidence this was a planned terrorist incident.

Interesting.

Yep, just people in a hotel with guns, body armor and over 1000 rounds of ammo. As people do.

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Lordgold666 posted...

Im not surprised, denver is covered from head to toe in graffiti and tents

no it isnt lol

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BloodMoon7 posted...

Fuck yeah! Maids!

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Snitches are heroes.

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CommonStar posted...

Crazy to think the cops would never have known if it wasn't for the maid tipping them off.

Three previous offenders, some with warrants, still being able to acquire and possess that much weaponry is nuts.

Just another day ending in y in America

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Alright! Score one for the good guys!

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metallica846 posted...

The FBI is supposed to stop these so having a maid do their job is embarrassing as fuck for them.

Maybe the maid was in on it or was their informant or something

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Hope the maid gets some sort of monetary reward.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...

Glad the maid wasnt scared of getting backlash because of her suspicions.

Ha, Ive always wondered what Id do if I stumbled upon a dead body or something.

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DarthAragorn posted...

Yep, just people in a hotel with guns, body armor and over 1000 rounds of ammo. As people do.

Tbf they were also arrested with a ton of drugs so who knows.

If the facebook comments are real that's pretty questionable though.
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Bio1590 posted...

Tbf they were also arrested with a ton of drugs so who knows.

If the facebook comments are real that's pretty questionable though.

What Facebook comments are these?

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DarthAragorn posted...

What Facebook comments are these?

Article in the OP, one of them was recently divorced and had posted they were "going out in a big way".
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Good, this needs as much or more coverage than mass shootings that happen.

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^agree

The FBI stopped releasing so much stuff to the news outlets on serial killers for a reason. Sensationalization can encourage certain people to emulate. Someone whos into that sort of stuff, etc. I really dont like hearing about it tbh. When I was in school, some of the kids would joke about Columbine & VA Tech. Like it was nothing, or whatever. Really sick stuff.......

Bless the person who reported them & potentially saved dozens of lives

Xethuminra posted...

^agree

The FBI stopped releasing so much stuff to the news outlets on serial killers for a reason. Sensationalization can encourage certain people to emulate. Someone whos into that sort of stuff, etc. I really dont like hearing about it tbh. When I was in school, some of the kids would joke about Columbine & VA Tech. Like it was nothing, or whatever. Really sick stuff.......

Bless the person who reported them & potentially saved dozens of lives

The American Psychological Association agrees with you.

"Media Contagion" Is Factor in Mass Shootings, Study Says
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/08/media-contagion

DENVER People who commit mass shootings in America tend to share three traits: rampant depression, social isolation and pathological narcissism, according to a paper presented at the American Psychological Associations annual convention that calls on the media to deny such shooters the fame they seek.
Mass shootings are on the rise and so is media coverage of them, said Jennifer B. Johnston, PhD, of Western New Mexico University. At this point, can we determine which came first? Is the relationship merely unidirectional: More shootings lead to more coverage? Or is it possible that more coverage leads to more shootings?
Johnston and her coauthor, Andrew Joy, BS, also of Western New Mexico University, reviewed data on mass shootings amassed by media outlets, the FBI and advocacy organizations, as well as scholarly articles, to conclude that media contagion is largely responsible for the increase in these often deadly outbursts. They defined mass shootings as either attempts to kill multiple people who are not relatives or those resulting in injuries or fatalities in public places.
The prevalence of these crimes has risen in relation to the mass media coverage of them and the proliferation of social media sites that tend to glorify the shooters and downplay the victims, Johnston said.
We suggest that the media cry to cling to the publics right to know covers up a greedier agenda to keep eyeballs glued to screens, since they know that frightening homicides are their No. 1 ratings and advertising boosters, she said.
The demographic profile of mass shooters is fairly consistent, she said. Most are white, ostensibly heterosexual males, largely between the ages of 20 and 50. They tend to see themselves as victims of injustice, and share a belief that they have been cheated out of their rightful dominant place as white, middle-class males.
Unfortunately, we find that a cross-cutting trait among many profiles of mass shooters is desire for fame, she said. This quest for fame among mass shooters skyrocketed since the mid-1990s in correspondence to the emergence of widespread 24-hour news coverage on cable news programs, and the rise of the internet during the same period.
She cited several media contagion models, most notably one proposed by Towers et al. (2015), which found the rate of mass shootings has escalated to an average of one every 12.5 days, and one school shooting on average every 31.6 days, compared to a pre-2000 level of about three events per year. A possibility is that news of shooting is spread through social media in addition to mass media, she said.
If the mass media and social media enthusiasts make a pact to no longer share, reproduce or retweet the names, faces, detailed histories or long-winded statements of killers, we could see a dramatic reduction in mass shootings in one to two years, she said. Even conservatively, if the calculations of contagion modelers are correct, we should see at least a one-third reduction in shootings if the contagion is removed.
She said this approach could be adopted in much the same way as the media stopped reporting celebrity suicides in the mid-1990s after it was corroborated that suicide was contagious. Johnston noted that there was a clear decline in suicide by 1997, a couple of years after the Centers for Disease Control convened a working group of suicidologists, researchers and the media, and then made recommendations to the media.
The media has come together before to work for good, to incite social change, she said. They have done, and they can do it. It is time. It is enough.
Session 1246: Mass Shooters and the Media Contagion Effect, (PDF, 265KB) Symposium, Thursday, Aug. 4, 1-2:50 p.m. MDT, Mile High Ballroom 4F Level 3, Ballroom Level, Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, Denver.
Presentations are available from the APA Public Affairs Office.
Jennifer Johnston can be contacted by email or by phone at (575) 654-0052.
The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's membership includes more than 117,500 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.

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I think its the other way around ^.^

I agree with them

Xethuminra posted...

I think its the other way around ^.^

I agree with them

Either way is fine =D

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

The American Psychological Association agrees with you.

"Media Contagion" Is Factor in Mass Shootings, Study Says
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/08/media-contagion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4

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Tyranthraxus posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4

We need Media Laws following the APA guide lines across the US about this kind of stuff.

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KamenRiderBlade posted...

We need Media Laws following the APA guide lines across the US about this kind of stuff.

TBH we should curtail 1st amendment press protection for television & radio. Absolute freedom should only apply to print since that's all that existed at the time the first amendment was written.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

TBH we should curtail 1st amendment press protection for television & radio. Absolute freedom should only apply to print since that's all that existed at the time the first amendment was written.

No, Media in general needs regulation on how it does it's reporting.

It can still report on whatever it wants, as long as it follows media regulations & guide lines.

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metralo posted...

no it isnt lol

I was just there last week getting voodoo doughnuts, the place is a disaster

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