Homicide

Police investigate if man's shooting death in Colorado is linked with 2 other recent shootings

Associated Press
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A police detective loads a desktop computer into his car while searching for potential clues at the home of a slain man - whose name is yet to be officially released - who was shot and killed the night before, in Loveland, Colo., Thursday, June 4, 2015. The overnight killing of the man on a sidewalk near his home in this in this northern Colorado town has raised alarm that a serial shooter might be trolling the area’s roads after a bicyclist was gunned down and a driver was wounded nearby in less than two months. The FBI refuses to comment, but has offered a $10,000 reward for information in the first two shootings, which local police say are related. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (The Associated Press)

A police officer puts her bulletproof vest into her car after searching for potential clues at the home of a slain man - whose name is yet to be officially released - who was shot and killed the night before, in Loveland, Colo., Thursday, June 4, 2015. The overnight killing of the man on a sidewalk near his home in this in this northern Colorado town has raised alarm that a serial shooter might be trolling the area’s roads after a bicyclist was gunned down and a driver was wounded nearby in less than two months. The FBI refuses to comment, but has offered a $10,000 reward for information in the first two shootings, which local police say are related. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (The Associated Press)

Ciera Rogers, far right, receives condolences from her friend Sam Hinde, on the loss of Rogers' grandfather, who was shot and killed the night before on a sidewalk near his home, in the northern Colorado town of Loveland, Colo., Thursday, June 4, 2015. At left, facing, Emmett Pelissier hugs Ciera Rogers' sister Sadie. The overnight killing in this northern Colorado city has raised alarm that a serial shooter might be trolling the area’s roads after a bicyclist was gunned down and a driver was wounded nearby in less than two months. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (The Associated Press)

Authorities are investigating whether the killing of a 65-year-old man is connected with two other shootings in northern Colorado.

A man was found lying on a sidewalk bleeding from gunshot wounds Wednesday night in Loveland, about 50 miles north of Denver. Police say they were unable to save him.

About 15 miles away, a bicyclist was shot to death in the city of Windsor on May 18, and a woman driving on nearby Interstate 25 was shot in the neck April 22 but survived. Police have connected those two cases, but have not said how.

There also have been a string of broken vehicle windows reported by drivers in northern Colorado since the I-25 shooting. But investigators so far have not found proof of gunshots in those cases.