Loveland Police responded to a report of window that was broken out of a semi-truck while it was driving northbound on Interstate 25 just north of U.S. 34 Friday morning.

A release from Loveland Police Department spokesman Sgt. Justin Chase stated Leland Sloan, 59, of Parker was driving a UPS semi truck when his driver side window broke; he immediately pulled over to the side of the highway.

Sloan was injured and taken to an area hospital — the release did not say how the man was injured in this incident.

Upon investigation of the vehicle, officers could not determine what caused the window to break. However, the release stated there is no evidence that a bullet damaged the window.

Another broken window north of Fort Collins on I-25 near Highway 14 was reported to Colorado State Patrol on Thursday afternoon.

Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said troopers did not respond to the incident’s scene.

“We got the call around 2:20 p.m. indicating on I-25 near Highway 14 that a window had been blown out,” he said. “It was a company truck, they went to their yard and had already replaced it. There was no evidence of (foul play).”

Both incidents were reported to the Northern Colorado Task Force.

David Moore, the Northern Colorado Task Force spokesman, said Friday afternoon that investigators looking into three recent Northern Colorado shootings do not believe these incidents were related.

“The task force, as they have been all long, have been advised of those incidents,” Moore said. “Either show no indication that they are linked to the task force investigation.”

The Northern Colorado task force, headquartered out of the Windsor Police Department, is a collaboration between the Windsor Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Larimer County District Attorney’s Office, Weld County Sheriff’s Office, Weld County District Attorney’s Office and now the Loveland Police Department.

The team of investigators was created after an injurious I-25 shooting and a fatal Windsor shooting were connected. A third shooting in Loveland prompted the Loveland Police Department’s involvement in the investigation shortly after. The multi-agency coalition is currently located in Loveland.

The first shooting was that of 20-year-old Milliken woman Cori Romero, who was driving southbound on I-25, north of Fort Collins, at night when she suffered a gunshot wound to the neck. Romero had surgery that night and survived.

The second shooting was that of 48-year-old city of Windsor employee John Jacoby, who was riding his bike on Weld County Road 15 when he was reported to have been shot twice and was found dead on the side of the road.

Both shootings appeared to be random until police and FBI officials connected the crimes.

The third shooting occurred June 3. William Roger Connole Jr. was walking home when he was shot and killed at East First Street and St. Louis Avenue in downtown Loveland. His homicide has yet to be officially connected to the other two shootings but is still under investigation by the same team.

Two separate awards have been offered by the FBI and Crime Stoppers for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about these cases is asked to call Crime Stoppers of Larimer County at 221-6868.

Dana Rieck: 970-635-3630, rieckd@reporter-herald.com or twitter.com/DanaRieckRH