Judge orders competency evaluation for alleged CU Colorado Springs dorm shooter

The 25-year-old man accused of fatally shooting two people in a University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus dorm room in February will undergo a competency evaluation, an El Paso County district court judge ordered Monday.

Nicholas Trevon Jordan is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Feb. 16 deaths of his roommate, 24-year-old Samuel Knopp, and 26-year-old Celie Rain Montgomery of Pueblo.

Police responded to the UCCS campus just before 6 a.m. on Feb. 16 when Jordan and Knopp’s other roommate called 911 after being awoken by gunshots, according to an arrest affidavit.

Police found the bodies of Knopp and Montgomery, who was not a student at the university, with multiple gunshot wounds in Knopp’s room and Jordan’s room was emptied of his belongings.

Jordan had previously threatened to kill Knopp over a dispute about trash in the dorm pod. He filed a request to withdraw from UCCS classes and housing the day before the shooting, according to an arrest affidavit.