A property-line dispute in rural Westcliffe, Colorado, turned deadly on November 20, 2023. Longstanding tensions over an easement had pitted neighbors and relatives against one another; the Geers had reported multiple trespassing incidents and expressed concerns for their safety. On that day, 73-year-old Beth Wade Geers, her 63-year-old husband Robert Rob Geers, and 58-year-old James Daulton were fatally shot on the Geers’ land near Rocky Ridge Road. Patty Daulton was critically injured but survived, and a fifth person escaped and alerted authorities.

A manhunt followed after the shooter fled the scene. The suspect, identified as Hanme Clark, was captured in New Mexico the next day during a high-risk traffic stop and charged with three counts of first-degree murder. A woman who was with him at the time, Nancy Rae Medina-Kochis, was arrested and charged as an accessory and was being held pending extradition to Colorado.

Does anyone in the Westcliffe area have information about the easement dispute or the repeated trespassing reports that preceded this violence?