In the early hours of a late February morning in Colorado Springs, the life of a young man was tragically cut short. Shahid Burke, a 24-year-old Black male, was fatally wounded in a shooting that unfolded in the 1000 block of North Academy Boulevard on February 28, 2025. Burke was an active-duty infantryman stationed at the nearby Fort Carson, where he had served for nearly five and a half years and had risen to the rank of Sergeant.
Around 2:30 a.m., the sound of gunfire prompted calls t
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