Jason Pohl

jasonpohl@coloradoan.com

The announcement will happen at noon Tuesday.

The last Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force announcement was Sept. 18.

Last week marked one year since a woman was shot in the neck while driving along I-25.

No arrests have been made in that shooting or the series of others that left 2 men dead.

The special task force investigating a pair of still-unsolved homicides and a spate of shootings in Northern Colorado will break its seven-month silence Tuesday during a media briefing.

It remains unclear what the Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force plans to reveal at the noon briefing at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland. Spokesman David Moore confirmed to the Coloradoan that he and investigators who have worked the case for the past year will reveal some of the findings and answer some of the questions that have lingered for much of the past year.

No arrests have been made, Moore confirmed Monday. The investigation is continuing.

The announcement will be the first since last summer regarding the unsolved homicides of John Jacoby and William Connole. Jacoby, 47, was gunned down May 18 while riding his bicycle on a rural Windsor road. Connole, 65, was shot and killed while walking on a sidewalk near downtown Loveland on June 3. Those homicides have not officially been linked. But the Jacoby homicide was tied to the shooting that seriously injured 20-year-old Cori Romero in April 2015 as she drove on the Harmony Road exit of Interstate 25. And the Connole case is tied to a shooting that happened about two miles away earlier that night when someone fired at a person riding a motorcycle in Loveland.

The task force also fielded reports of shattered front and side vehicle windows on and near I-25 through the spring and summer. The task force has not revealed any evidence that gunshots were the cause of the window shatterings. Broken window reports continued through the winter across the region.

Officials made a series of announcements about the investigation last year but details about much of the investigation have been kept under wraps.

At a Sept. 18 news conference, the task force issued a pointed, yet vague, plea for an August tipster to come forward with additional information. Investigators never publicly disclosed the contents of that tip, and it remains unclear if that person came forward after the announcement.

It marked the first potentially substantive lead in the case since the task force’s previous news conference June 23 when it released the description of a 1970s burnt orange truck, identified as a vehicle of interest.

The Larimer County Commission signaled earlier this month it would grant a $33,000 request to ensure the Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force's building lease can continue for at least another six months in case a federal funding request is denied. The building is in an undisclosed location. Police from Loveland, Windsor, Fort Collins, deputies from Larimer and Weld counties and the FBI, among others, have worked the case.

"That investigation is still very strong and ongoing," Larimer County Sheriff's Office Capt. Robert Coleman told county commissioners at the meeting, adding, "We do not want to stop the momentum."

The FBI last fall increased the award to $50,000 for information leading to an arrest, prosecution and conviction in the four confirmed shootings. Anyone with information about the Northern Colorado incidents is asked to call 970-498-5595. Information can also be emailed to taskforce@larimer.org.

Reporter Jason Pohl covers breaking news for the Coloradoan. Follow him on Twitter: @pohl_jason.