On March 22, Erin Liljander was caught on camera entering Patrick Lane’s apartment. Renaissance Riverfront Lofts — Award-winning affordable multifamily homes located along the South Platte River Trail near RiNo’s Railyards Marketplace center. Lane did not come out.
Touted by the Colorado Homeless Coalition as the agency’s first “green” apartment building, the five-story Riverfront Lofts project at 3440 Park Avenue West will focus on the eco-friendly construction and design of the structure and its commitment to the community. contribution.
Liljander, 22, who lives in a homeless camp near the Groveville neighborhood and is known as “Shizu,” has been to the building at least once before, according to police, and surveillance footage shows him entering and leaving. had been captured. He hurriedly left with some items and a backpack at Lane’s apartment from 10:52 a.m. to 2:57 p.m. that day.
Five days later, Lane was found dead in his kitchen. He was stabbed 27 times in the back of his head, left side of his neck, left arm, left torso and left upper leg.
What is your motive? Lil Jander, who has been charged with first-degree murder, knows her 54-year-old Lane and how CCH has publicly praised it as a ‘safe and protected space’ Renaissance how he broke into her riverfront loft As for the answer as to whether it did, it is still unknown. “Like others, it runs all over Denver.
“We do everything we can to prevent trespassers from entering our premises, but like every apartment you hear in Denver, sometimes people find ways to break in,” the Union said. spokeswoman Kathy Alderman said.[Liljander] I didn’t live in the accommodation. She was not a resident. She wasn’t a tenant. She was not affiliated with her CCH program. It’s obviously not for us to know if she might have been invited to be a guest.
Security footage obtained by police shows Lil Jander in a building at around 5:30 a.m. on March 19, in an unlocked apartment in Lane with what appears to be a knife lodged in his right front trouser pocket. In less than an hour, she left with her skateboard.
March 22 — the last day Lane was seen alive and the day he was believed to have been stabbed to death — Rejander was again caught on camera and exited the building through a side exit. rice field.
CCH is now considering whether the incident should rethink its safety strategy and security measures.
“Right now, our number one concern is making sure residents and field staff feel safe and supported,” the alderman said. “The safety, comfort and security of our buildings is a top priority for us. These buildings are often built by us from the ground up, thus providing safe and affordable housing for our communities. We take great pride in what we are able to do.The maintenance of these buildings is very important to us.The safety of our residents and on-site staff is very important.That’s why we have security measures in place…Read More Let’s see if we can do better, and if we can do better.”
CCH is at least 18 different properties With about 2,000 units in and around Denver, aldermen say there may have been problems with residential units before. “But I can’t recall anything about how violent this particular incident was,” she adds.
The Denver City Council authorized CCH to transfer $5 million in September 2022 to transform the La Quinta Inn motel into affordable housing. The property is nearly adjacent to Renaissance’s Riverfront Loft, which is located at 3500 Park Avenue West. The funding was from American Rescue Plan funds sent by the federal government for COVID relief.
CCH has sought funding from the city’s COVID relief to continue to provide “a lifeline for people experiencing homelessness in Denver to recover from COVID and stay in a safe and protected space.” “Safety and security are top priorities in every building,” says Alderman.
When asked what the Coalition’s response would be to residents and homeless people who moved into Riverfront Lofts after the Lane murders and didn’t feel safe, Alderman said, “First, they’re safer. If it is an increase in the number of staff on site, then naturally we will try to change our staffing to accommodate it. If we have an update on what is going on, we will provide it.If it is so unsafe that we can no longer live there, we will work with them to find suitable relocation options.”
Lane’s murder came just as CCH’s new CEO and president, Britta Fisher — a former chief housing officer in Denver — started working at the end of March.
According to CCH, the properties it owns and manages include more than 1,700 affordable supported housing units. Affordable housing is aimed at renting below market prices, while assisted housing also offers services such as case management.
The Renaissance Riverfront Lofts were built by CCH in 2009 and consist of 88 one-bedroom apartments and 12 two-bedroom units with low rents and case management services may be available on site. Residents can live there only if their income is below the local median income, the state-based criteria used by the federal government to determine someone’s income status.
Colorado AMI is around $82,000 A year alone. The majority of Riverfront Lofts tenants are also accepted through referrals, according to the property’s website. Rent for this property ranges from $345 to $875 per month.
CCH’s property management division — formerly Renaissance Property Management Corporation, now CCH Property Management — owns similarly named affordable housing complexes, including Renaissance Civic Center Apartments on East 16th Street and Renaissance on Raleigh Boulevard. I’m here.
CCH’s website describes Riverfront Lofts as “a winner of Affordable Housing Finance Magazine’s 2009 Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Green Project and a 2009 Gold Hard Multifamily/Hospitality Project from Colorado Construction.” Hut Award winner.”
Colorado Construction also awarded the facility a Gold Hard Hat Award/Special Judges Award for Outstanding Community Service in 2008, the site says.
Aldermen said Riverfront Loft residents will be given a key fob to enter the building. It’s unclear if the Rejender had the Lane fob or if he got it in some other way.
Suspect Erin Liljander.
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“From the video we shared with police, it looked like she was able to enter the victim’s unit. It looked like it could have been an invitation or they knew each other.
The CCH actually worked with police to help arrest Liljander and handed over the surveillance footage, alderman said. However, the coalition government declined to make an official statement, saying it wanted to wait until the police formally concluded their investigation.
Police said Liljander was already in police custody on another charge when he was identified as a suspect in Lane’s murder.
Police said a friend of Laing’s who had known him for two years and who was a regular drug user found his body in his apartment.
The friend, whose name was redacted in a police affidavit, had just completed more than two weeks of rehab and was visiting Lane when he found a body “in a pool of blood” in the kitchen. , he discovered between 12:00 and 3:00 on March 27.
The friend “then left the apartment and went to use several people’s phones,” the affidavit said. However, “he did not mention that the victim was found dead by someone he came into contact with.”
According to police, by about 6 p.m. on March 28, a friend “told a woman who was talking in the alleyway between 3440 Park Ave W and Downtown that he had found the victim dead.”
When a friend told police, he claimed to have told “many tenants and building security guards” about Lane’s death. increase.
“He even asked to use people’s phones, but they thought he was trying to steal, so they insisted nobody let him use their phones,” police added. .
Police have issued a statement requesting help in the search for the suspect after finding the body about a week after the murder. Investigators viewed security footage and identified Lil Junder. Three days after police found Lane’s body, and more than a week after he was murdered, an anonymous informant said a young homeless woman named Erin had been found wearing bloody clothes. Came back to the Groveville camp wearing it and she just said she threw it away.
The informant also said the woman was known to steal and always carried a backpack, according to police.
A search of the police database eventually found Lil Junder. Officials say he is on probation outside Jefferson County. After comparing her reservation photos with security footage, detectives concluded they had found the suspect.
Rejander was being held at the Logan County Jail on unspecified charges. She also had two outstanding arrest warrants at the time. One of them included her request from the Yuma County Sheriff’s Department in southern Arizona to put her in custody after she finished serving her other charges.
