LARIMER COUNTY — The Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force released a surveillance video Tuesday showing the motorcyclist who was shot at the same night William Connole was shot and killed in downtown Loveland.

On the Task Force’s Facebook page, a post stated the video shows a motorcyclist being followed by the shooter in a 1973 to 1987 Chevy or GMC orange pickup truck moments before the motorcyclist was shot at the evening of June 3, 2015.

“The motorcyclist was shot at just moments after this video was taken, but was not injured,” the post stated. “Approximately 12 minutes later, the shooter shot and killed Mr. William Connole on the northwest corner of East 1st Street and North St. Louis Avenue.”

Connole was shot once in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.

Northern Colorado Task Force officials are looking to identify and speak with anyone who was in the area at the time of this shooting.

They are asking people who were saw the orange pickup truck near Denver Avenue and U.S. 34 on June 3, 2015 around 10:30 p.m. to contact them at 498-5595 or taskforce@larimer.org.

Background

Connole’s murder came at a time when two other Northern Colorado shootings had residents worried for their safety and had multiple law enforcement agencies working together to solve the cases.

The first shooting was that of 20-year-old Milliken woman Cori Romero on the evening of April 22, 2015. She was driving south on Interstate 25, near 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, 2015, 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 shot twice and was found dead on the side of the road.

Those two shootings were officially linked on May 28, 2015 — the Northern Colorado Shooting Task Force was established at the same time.

Shortly after Connole’s death, an attempted shooting was reported to authorities that occurred the same night as the man’s death. In that shooting, no injuries were sustained, but police officially connected the two incidents.

The four shootings, however, have yet to be connected or determined separate incidents.

Two other shootings occurred on the same day — Sept. 13, 2015 — at the Banner Health Center on Lady Moon Drive and Cottonwood Plains Elementary School on Turman Drive.

The buildings were damaged by bullets, but no one was injured. The health center was occupied, but the school was not. Those two shootings have been connected to each other, but not to the other four shootings.

The task force held a press conference in late April this year. There, spokesman David Moore said detectives investigated and ruled out 12 people, looked into more than 5,100 tips, followed up on more than 1,800 vehicles, conducted more than 1,000 interviews and processed 340,385 phone records.

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