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AURORA - A man was found shot to death inside a car at an apartment complex in Aurora Saturday night . Someone called police at about 7:45 p.m. and said they believed there was a dead body in a car in the parking lot of the Silverbrook Apartments, near East 1st Avenue and South Chambers Road . The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Aurora Police Department . "The initial investigation reveals that the victim was shot in the head," police said. Detectives from the Major Crimes/Homicide Unit and Crime Scene Investigations Unit have taken over the investigation. "This is an active investigation and the scene has not been released," police stated Sunday morning at about 8:30 a.m. Anyone with additional information regarding this incident is asked to call Agent Tom Welton at (303) 739-6107 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP (7867). Tipsters to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and are eligible for a reward of up to $2,000.

Author John Freeman Gill takes Fodor’s on an urban safari. If you make the effort to gaze skyward in New York, you will discover (hiding in plain sight) a city teeming with remarkable architectural sculptures : gryphons and sea monsters, cherubs and pelicans, goddesses and kings. These exuberantly expressive artworks were the creation of gifted immigrant stone carvers who poured into New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , most of them from the British Isles, Germany, and Italy. The ornament on the grandest edifices was typically specified by architects, but on the vast majority of city buildings , the design of the carvings was left up to the individual stoneworker. The carvers took this freedom and ran with it, incising their imaginations into New York’s skyline and transforming its streetscape into a marvelously quirky public art gallery . 555 Washington Avenue John Freeman Gill Ever since my novel, The Gargoyle Hunters , was published, I’ve been besieged by readers a...