What to know about 19-year-old killed in Colorado Springs shooting identified
A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.
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What happened
A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.
Why it matters
COMPASS This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation 2 days __Secure-OSID This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation 6 months…
Common ground
The use of this cookie depends on your browser settings and whether you have chosen to have location turned on for your browser.
Perspective signals
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Follow-up questions
What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: 19-year-old killed in Colorado Springs shooting identified?
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 42 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.
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Claim 1: “A Google uses this cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers”
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Claim 2: “AdID Show Google ads on non-Google sites and personalize ads based on user settings”
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Claim 3: “gcl Helps advertisers determine user actions on their site after clicking an ad”
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Claim 4: “FCCDCF is Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out.”
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Claim 5: “SEARCH_SAMESITE prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks.”
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Multiple cross-references uniformly describe that SEARCH_SAMESITE prevents the cookie from being sent with cross-site requests to mitigate cross-origin information leakage and protect against CSRF attacks.
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— SEARCH_SAMESITE prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection a…
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/21/colorado-springs-utilities-…
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— SEARCH_SAMESITE prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection a…
https://krdo.com/news/high-country-adventures/2026/04/17/hig…
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— SEARCH_SAMESITE prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection a…
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/17/shooting-argume…
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Claim 6: “SID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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Claim 7: “HSID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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Claim 8: “FCNEC is Cookie for Google Funding Choices API which allows for functionality specific to consent gathering for things like GDPR consent and CCPA opt-out.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 9: “ACCOUNT_CHOOSER Used to sign in with Google account.”
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Claim 10: “OTZ Aggregate analysis of website visitors”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 11: “CONSENT is Google cookie consent tracker”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 12: “g_enabled_idps is used for Google Single Sign On”
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All cross-references consistently state that the g_enabled_idps cookie is used for Google Single Sign On.
Claim 13: “AID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 14: “A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet.”
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Multiple cross-references consistently describe the function of a powerful search engine as organizing and providing access to vast information on the internet, confirming the general definition.
Claim 15: “TAID is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events.”
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Multiple cross-references consistently explain that TAID links user activity across devices (if signed into a Google Account) for the purpose of coordinating ads and measuring conversion events.
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— TAID is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conv…
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/17/shooting-argume…
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— TAID is used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conv…
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/24/openais-sam-altman-apologiz…
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— Used to link your activity across devices if you've previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion e…
https://krdo.com/weather/2026/04/12/tracking-fire-weather/
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Claim 16: “Secure-YEC Serve a similar purpose for YouTube, including detecting and resolving problems”
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Claim 17: “GN_PREF cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation”
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Claim 18: “1P_JAR These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos. They register anonymous statistical data on for example how many times the video is displayed and what settings are used for playback.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 19: “GCLB is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers.”
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All cross-references consistently explain that GCLB is used in the context of load balancing to optimize response rate by distributing traffic load across multiple network links or servers.
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— GCLB is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers.
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/28/more-storms-ahe…
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— GCLB is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers.
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/17/shooting-argume…
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— This cookie is used in context with load balancing - This optimizes the response rate between the visitor and the site, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers.
https://krdo.com/sports/cnn-sports/2026/04/17/notre-dame-and…
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Claim 20: “_Secure-YEC Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creators”
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Claim 21: “SMSV Used to sign in with Google account.”
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Claim 22: “UULE sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location.”
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All available cross-references uniformly state that the UULE cookie sends precise location information from the browser to Google's servers specifically for showing location-relevant search results.
Claim 23: “django_language Cookie necessary for the use of the options and services of the website.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 24: “_Secure-ENID Remembers user preferences like language, search results per page, and SafeSearch settings”
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Claim 25: “SNID is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation”
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Claim 26: “DSID Identifies signed-in users on non-Google sites to respect ad personalization settings”
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Claim 27: “SOCS Stores a user's state regarding their cookies choices”
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Claim 28: “APISID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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Claim 29: “_dcid collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website.”
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Claim 30: “gac Measure user activity and ad campaign performance for advertisers”
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Claim 31: “FPGCLDC is used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site.”
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The evidence repeatedly confirms that the FPGCLDC cookie helps advertisers determine user actions (conversion) after users click on their ads.
Claim 32: “LSOLH is for authentication with your Google account”
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Claim 33: “g_cl_au is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.”
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Multiple cross-references consistently state that the g_cl_au cookie is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites.
Claim 34: “receive-cookie-deprecation ensures browers in an experiment group of the Chrome-facilitated testing period include the Sec-Cookie-Deprecation request header as soon as it becomes available.”
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Claim 35: “CGIC Improves search results delivery by autocompleting queries based on user input”
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Claim 36: “SSID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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Claim 37: “SAPISID downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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Claim 38: “SIDCC downloads certain Google Tools and save certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 39: “__Secure-ENID is used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts. This also contains a Google user ID which can be used for statistics and marketing purposes following a successful login”
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The evidence consistently states that __Secure-ENID is used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts and also contains a Google user ID used for statistics and marketing purposes.
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— __Secure-ENID is used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts. This also contains a Google user ID which can be used for statistics and marketing purposes following a successful login
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/17/shooting-argume…
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— Used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts. This also contains a Google user ID which can be used for statistics and marketing purposes following a successful login
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/22/crash-closes-portion-of-nor…
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— __Secure-ENID is used by Google to prevent fraudulent login attempts. This also contains a Google user ID which can be used for statistics and marketing purposes following a successful login
https://krdo.com/news/top-stories/2026/04/22/fort-carson-war…
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Claim 40: “NID is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation”
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The evidence consistently confirms that the NID cookie is used to collect website statistics, track conversion rates, and assist with Google ad personalization.
Claim 41: “__Host-1PLSID used to sign in with Google account.”
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Claim 42: “cookies_accepted This functionality cookie is simply to verify that you have allowed us to set cookies on your machine”
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