DENVER \u2014 A 21-year-old man was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder, after a veteran Denver policewoman who was raising her 12-year-old daughter alone was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, police said Monday.<\/p>\n
Suspect Rollen Oliver<\/strong> was taken into custody late Sunday after witnesses gave a description of the gunman. Police also recovered a gun and said they believe Oliver<\/strong> was the only person involved in the attack.<\/p>\n Police Chief Robert White<\/strong> said investigators were not sure if Officer Celena Hollis<\/strong> was the target of the shooting when she answered a call about a disturbance in the park.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a tragic event last night and a beautiful young, single mother and a valuable member of the Denver Police Department lost her life,\u201d Public Safety Manager Alex Martinez<\/strong> said. Authorities said they did not know the cause of the disturbance.<\/p>\n Oliver<\/strong> appeared in court Monday and was ordered held without bond. District attorney\u2019s spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough<\/strong> said a decision on charges was not expected until later this week.<\/p>\n Oliver<\/strong> was escorted into the courtroom by six deputies, all wearing black and blue bands of mourning over their badges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DENVER \u2014 A 21-year-old man was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder, after a veteran Denver policewoman who was raising her 12-year-old daughter alone was shot and killed during a free jazz festival, police said Monday. Suspect Rollen Oliver was taken into custody late Sunday after witnesses gave a description of the gunman. Police also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}