Four innocent people were killed because Colorado released a violent serial criminal named Walter Huling
Man responsible for Highway 83 crash that killed 5 had a lengthy criminal history, Denver7 Investigates learns
Multiple sources confirmed to Denver7 Investigates that Walter Huling, 31, was the driver of the Toyota Matrix that caused the fatal crash Monday. Court documents show he was out on parole
By Tony Kovaleski and Joe Vaccarelli
November 26, 2025
The man who caused a fatal crash Monday along Highway 83 near Franktown was on parole and had a lengthy criminal record dating back to at least 2013, Denver7 Investigates learned.
Multiple sources close to the investigation confirmed to Denver7 Investigates that Walter Huling, 31, was the man driving a stolen Toyota Matrix hatchback when he lost control and slammed into a Ford sedan in the oncoming lane. Huling was killed along with four people in the sedan, including three juveniles.
The victims killed in the sedan were identified as 35-year-old father Alvin Corado, Toretto Corado, 8, Makenlee Corado, 12, and Jase Green, 12.
Huling was the only deceased party in the crash not identified, but law enforcement did say that the Toyota Matrix was reported stolen from RTD’s Nine Mile station in Aurora roughly an hour before the crash.
The victim in the theft said a man pulled her from her car and drove away after she refused to give him a ride.
Court documents show Huling had a long criminal history, including two stints in prison at the Colorado Department of Corrections.
“I mean, it’s an 11-page criminal history that dates back to when this guy was a juvenile,” said George Brauchler, district attorney for the 23rd Judicial District, where the accident occurred.
Denver7 Investigates took the information to Brauchler, who is questioning the system that allowed Huling to get back on the streets.
“This guy’s criminal history and the fact that he appears to have been on parole and this happened seems like we are failing the community,” Brauchler said.
Public records show that Huling was first arrested on assault charges in 2013 at age 18. He had 15 subsequent arrests over the next six years on charges ranging from false reporting, bribery, burglary, contempt of court, driving under the influence, parole violations and multiple other assaults.
In 2019, he was sentenced to six years in prison related to an assault in downtown Denver after he knocked a man unconscious and assaulted the man’s wife. He was also charged with assaulting the police officer who arrested him.
Denver7 Investigates has reached out to the Colorado Department of Corrections for information on the conditions of Huling’s parole, but has not yet heard back.
“I think there’s a lot of justifiable anger and questions that should go on after a case like this,” Brauchler said. “I’ve got questions for the state of Colorado, especially a guy that was on parole after he had a parole violation, and those questions have to be stern, and that is, ‘What are we doing?’ Who are you putting out here on the streets?”
Here’s a video tour of one of the rent stabilized apartments that Zohran Mamdani is in favor of. I propose that Mamdani move in and live there during his entire term.
Ivan Bates, the new district attorney in Baltimore, has been locking up violent serial criminals, which has caused a huge drop in the city’s murder rate. I agree with what Bates is doing. I wish other district attorneys would copy his policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjGHT1jlXkk
Colorado has given a serial armed robber named Ross Woessner permission to commit as many armed robberies as he wants.
Charges dropped against suspect in multiple Aurora gas station robberies due to Colorado’s competency law
Denver7 Investigates has covered the complexities of Colorado’s competency law for more than a year. In this latest case, the suspect was accused of robbing six stations over a period of seven months
By Tony Kovaleski , Natalie Chuck, and Joe Vaccarelli
November 10, 2025
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — An Arapahoe County deputy district attorney expressed frustration Monday that a man suspected in multiple armed robberies of gas stations in Aurora had his charges dismissed after he was found incompetent to stand trial.
A judge last week dropped the charges against Ross Woessner, 21, who was accused of robbing multiple gas stations over a seven-month period — including the same station five times. Woessner was released back into the public, according to the district attorney’s office.
“It is hard to understand that once again, in Arapahoe County, as well as in other parts of the state of Colorado, a dangerous felon is walking out of jail with cases dismissed, without any ability to supervise that person, without any ability to give that person a mental health services, without any ability to protect the community from someone who the law deems incompetent,” Arapahoe County Deputy District Attorney Ryan Brackley told Denver7 Investigates on Monday.
An arrest affidavit for Woessner notes he was apprehended in March. He robbed a Shell gas station in the 3300 block of South Tower Road on five separate occasions between July 2024 and February 2025. In all instances, he entered the store and brandished either a gun or a knife and instructed the clerk to step away. Then he would take a variety of items ranging from vape products to cigarettes to beer.
His other alleged robbery occurred at a 7-Eleven in the 18800 Block of East Hampden Avenue. The arrest affidavit states he went to that location after employees of the Shell station saw Woessner approaching and locked the doors.
The affidavit also listed that Woessner had an intellectual development disability. Courts records show he was found incompetent at a hearing in late September.
Woessner has a criminal history in Denver as well. In 2023, he was arrested on robbery charges. That case was dismissed. He’s also charged in an assault case in April.
This is the second case in Arapahoe County in recent months to get media attention after a judge dismissed charges against a defendant after they were found incompetent to proceed in the case and would not be restored in the near future.
In August, Solomon Galligan, who was accused of trying to kidnap children outside an Aurora elementary school in 2024, had their charges dismissed after being found incompetent to stand trial.
Denver7 Investigates has covered the complexities of Colorado’s competency law for more than a year. A language change in 2024 requires judges to dismiss charges against defendants who are found incompetent to proceed and not restorable. Prior to the change, judges had more discretion.
Cases ranged from those committed to a mental health hospital — such as Galligan and Ross McPherson, who was accused of stabbing a Lakewood doctor in 2022 — to those who walked free, like Guillermo Ramirez, who was facing vehicular homicide charges from a 2021 accident that killed two people and seriously injured three others, including himself.
This variability has been a source of frustration for Brackley.
“When the law changed, I think there were the best intentions all around,” Brackley said. “But it created this loophole where when a case is dismissed by the court, there’s no way to ensure civil commitment for dangerous people. There is no way to ensure a smooth transition back to a secure facility where someone can get mental health resources.”
Victims and family members of victims who watched as the charges against their alleged assailants were dropped have already taken action to try and amend the law, meeting with lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis, with hope changes could come early next year.
Brackley would support those changes.
“Under the law, it doesn’t matter what the crime is. It could be murder, it could be a misdemeanor, it could be a dangerous, violent crime like this. Under the law, if someone is found to be incompetent, the court has to dismiss that case,” he said. “This DA’s office, as well as other DA’s offices, are working hard to change the law.”
Zohran Mamdani: “When I’m Mayor, slumlords will be held accountable for safety and repairs. If they won’t, we’ll put them out of business.” Me: “Actually, when you become mayor, you will also become the biggest slumlord in New York City.”
https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1910714770249961729
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1987710215475650811
In the four minute video posted below, the housing conditions at a three bedroom apartment at a public housing project in the Bronx in New York City are absolutely horrible.
There are rats, roaches, and black mold.
There are leaks in every room.
And every time the tenant calls maintenance to ask for repairs, the government employees always make up some bogus excuse for why they can’t fix anything.
And why should the government employees fix anything, when they know they can’t get fired?
And as all of this is going on, the federal government is giving them $30 million per week to make these repairs.
Since they’re not actually making these repairs, what are they really spending that money on?
The video also says that at other apartments in the same building, sometimes there is no heat, sometimes there is no hot water, and sometimes there is even no running water at all.
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9PJOrDaXk
A former Bernie Sanders supporter explains why he voted to approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package: “If Elon gets paid 1 trillion dollars, I will be a multimillionaire.”
https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1986572743538844089
Why do New York City voters want to repeat this disaster from the 1960s and 1970s?
https://x.com/DanielAlmanPGH/status/1986536881585017013
The textbook case against rent control comes from New York City.
Many New York neighborhoods became blighted and abandoned buildings became common. Over 200,000 rental units were abandoned in the 1960s and ‘70s as rent control restrictions, along with other policies, reduced the South Bronx and parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem to rubble.
In Context: Zohran Mamdani’s use of phrase ‘seizing the means of production.’ What’s it mean?
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/seizing-means-production-Zohran-Mamdani/
In Context: Zohran Mamdani’s use of phrase ‘seizing the means of production.’ What’s it mean?
By Amy Sherman
July 3, 2025
A phrase Zohran Mamdani used in 2021 made the rounds in media reports and social media after the 33-year-old won the Democratic primary in the New York City mayoral race.
A self-described democratic socialist, Mamdani used the phrase “seizing the means of production” during a live streamed conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America in February 2021.
A White House spokesperson highlighted Mamdani’s use of the phrase in an email to PolitiFact July 1, days after we published our June 26 fact-check of President Donald Trump who called Mamdani “communist” in a Truth Social post. The White House didn’t send us evidence to support Trump’s statement before our fact-check was posted; multiple political scientists and communism experts told us Mamdani’s mayoral race positions did not amount to communism. We rated Trump’s statement False.
The spokesperson sent us a June 30 New York Post article highlighting Mamdani’s 2021 remarks as a newly elected state assemblyman and a 2020 Mamdani tweet praising a young leader. (We won’t dwell on the latter post because Mamdani’s point isn’t clear.) Fox News, Mediate and CNN pundits flagged his resurfaced remarks.
After reviewing the tape and re-interviewing experts, we decided not to change our False rating. Mamdani’s views in the mayoral race do not reflect communism, and experts found his 2021 remark too brief to reach detailed conclusions.
Mamdani, a foreclosure housing prevention counselor, won the state assembly race in 2020. A significant part of his 2020 platform was calling for the right of tenants to renew their lease and protections against rent hikes. In his 2025 mayoral platform, Mamdani calls for free buses and child care, more affordable housing and a handful of city-owned grocery stores. He faces a general election in November.
A Mamdani campaign spokesperson, Andrew Epstein, said, “There is nothing in his platform or in his record regarding seizing the means of production.” On NBC’s Meet the Press, Mamdani said that he is not a communist and is fighting for working people and against income inequality.
We wanted to share with our readers what experts had to say about Mamdani talking about “seizing the means of production.” What Mamdani said in 2021
About a month after taking office in 2021, Mamdani spoke to a Young Democratic Socialists of America virtual conference.
Throughout his roughly 40-minute remarks, Mamdani praised democratic socialism. The relevant portion of the clip starts around minute 10, when he spoke about acting on an agenda based on conviction of beliefs, whether they are popular or not.
“But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel), right, or whether it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.
“And what I want to say is that it is critical that the way that we organize, the way that we set up our you know, set up our work and our priorities, that we do not leave any one issue for the other, that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, but that we are doing both of these things in tandem, because it is critical for us to both meet people where they’re at and to also organize and organize for what is correct and for what is right and to ensure over time we can bring people to that issue.”
Was that a clear call for communism?
Experts in political parties and movements said Mamdani’s passing remark is associated with communism, but it’s hard to say much more about Mamdani’s views because he did not elaborate.
Ted Henken, a Baruch College sociology and Cuban culture professor, said whether “seizing the means of production” qualified as communist would depend on policy depth. “Many capitalist countries seize control of strategic areas of production or service; oil and minerals is a good example in Mexico and Brazil,” Henken said.
Mamdani also said that there was disagreement over the goal, Henken noted.
“A tweet or soundbite from a few years ago is different from the policies he has outlined in his mayoral platform and nowhere does he advocate ‘seizing the means of production’ there,” Henken said. “His policies rather seek to implement socialist style regulation of key public needs and services in areas like housing, food, education and transportation via higher taxes on the very rich.”
Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Stanford University international studies professor, said that seizing the means of production is a socialist and communist goal. “The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society,” she said.
Harvey Klehr, an Emory University emeritus professor of politics and history, told us that communists “issued calls to seize the means of production. (Karl) Marx had identified these as the mines, mills and factories that produced the raw materials and goods of industrial civilization.”
Democratic socialists “have long eschewed rhetoric about seizing the means of production,” Klehr said. “In the 20th century it became a defining difference between communists and socialists. When socialist governments came to power in England in 1945 and France in the 1980s, they did not seize the means of production but nationalized some industries and compensated owners.” Later, he said, they walked it back.
As for Mamdani, he said, “there is no way of telling exactly what Mamdani means by using that phrase, but it is redolent of authoritarian communists’ language.”
Geoffrey Kurtz, an associate political science professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, said listening to the video clip and watching Mamdani, “I had the impression that Mamdani intended that phrase as lighthearted hyperbole. I see no reason to assume that the phrase conveys anything precise about what he thinks.”
This video shows the kind of government owned housing that Zohran Mamdani wants to build more of in New York City
In the four minute video posted below, the housing conditions at a three bedroom apartment at a public housing project in the Bronx in New York City are absolutely horrible.
There are rats, roaches, and black mold.
There are leaks in every room.
And every time the tenant calls maintenance to ask for repairs, the government employees always make up some bogus excuse for why they can’t fix anything.
And why should the government employees fix anything, when they know they can’t get fired?
And as all of this is going on, the federal government is giving them $30 million per week to make these repairs.
Since they’re not actually making these repairs, what are they really spending that money on?
The video also says that at other apartments in the same building, sometimes there is no heat, sometimes there is no hot water, and sometimes there is even no running water at all.
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9PJOrDaXk
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