A Michigan man was arrested on Monday on murder charges related to the fatal shooting of two people, one of them his roommate, in a dormitory at the University of Colorado campus in Colorado Springs, the police said.
The man who was arrested, Nicholas Jordan, 25, of Detroit, was also a student at the university. He faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting of a fellow student, Samuel Knopp, 24, of Parker, Colo., and a campus visitor, Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, Colo., the Colorado Springs Police Department said on Monday in a series of statements on social media.
On Tuesday the authorities confirmed that Mr. Jordan and Mr. Knopp were roommates. They did not provide a motive or other details, including why Ms. Montgomery was on campus.
Caitlin Ford, a spokeswoman for the department, said on Tuesday that the police were still investigating what happened.
Mr. Jordan’s bond was raised from $1 to $5 million, cash only, during an advisement hearing on Tuesday afternoon. He was being held at El Paso County Jail in Colorado Springs.
Mr. Knopp was a senior studying music, and Mr. Jordan was also enrolled, said Jenna Press, a university spokeswoman. The university’s music program in 2023 featured a video of Mr. Knopp playing his guitar during his junior recital.
At about 6 a.m. on Friday, the campus police received a call about gunfire coming from Crestone House, a dormitory on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a city of about 480,000 people at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
The campus police found two people dead in the room and called the Colorado Springs Police Department, which dispatched its homicide unit to investigate.
By Friday night, the police had an arrest warrant, setting in motion a search for Mr. Jordan. By Sunday, the police were calling the shooting “an isolated incident between parties that were known to one another and not a random attack against the school or other students at the university.”
The search lasted through the weekend, until about 8 a.m. on Monday, when a motor vehicle theft unit found Mr. Jordan in a car in the city, the police said. He was taken into custody after about 30 minutes.
Students and officials held a “healing walk” on campus on Monday, laying flowers at the base of a marble statue of a mountain lion, a symbol of the university and the mascot for its athletic teams.
Rebecca Carballo contributed reporting.
