LOVELAND — More than eight months after the first in a string of shootings, the Northern Colorado Task Force is still investigating several unsolved shootings from earlier in the year.

According to the David Moore, spokesman for the task force, tips about the shootings are still being sent to investigators regularly — a number regarding those tips was unavailable, however.

“The investigation is still very active, we still have the full time office,” Moore said. ” (The task force) is staffed as it was when it was created. There are all the same investigations from all the same agencies.”

The task force is made up of 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 Loveland Police Department.

The first shooting was that of 20-year-old Milliken woman Cori Romero on the evening of April 22. She was driving south on Interstate 25, east of Fort Collins, at night when she suffered a gunshot wound to the neck. Romero had surgery that night and survived.

The second shooting, on the morning of May 18, was that of 48-year-old city of Windsor employee John Jacoby, who was riding his bike on Weld County Road 15. He was reported to have been shot twice and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The two shootings were officially linked through evidence on May 28; the task force was established at that time.

He said that while those two shootings have been connected through evidence, the June 3 homicide of 65-year-old William Connole near downtown Loveland has yet to be either officially linked or ruled a separate incident.

“Obviously it could certainly turn out that (they are connected) or it could turn out that they are not connected at all,” Moore said. “If something connects them all I am confident we will alert the public like we have with the other cases.”

An attempted shooting was reported to authorities a few weeks after the June 3 homicide of Connole. It was reported as having occurred the same night as the man’s death, but no injuries were suffered in that incident.

Several reports were filed with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office in which moving cars’ windows were shattered — investigators could not determine the cause of the broken windows or whether any of those incidents were related to the shootings.

The task force was seen this summer collecting evidence at locations including Mountain View Farm throughout the summer. Investigators also released a sketch depicting a vehicle of interest in late August and asked for members of the community to help identify and locate the truck.

Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call the task force tip line at 498-5595 or Larimer County Crime Stoppers at 221-6868.

The FBI has offered up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest, prosecution and conviction of the person or people responsible these shootings, and Larimer County Crime Stoppers is offering $2,500 to anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest.

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