Two months after being shot in the neck and thigh in front of her kids , Nicki Douglass-Johansen is trying to return to normal life as a single mother of 7-year-old twins. The 37-year-old Longmont resident was released from University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on April 3 after a two-week stay, most of which she spent in the trauma unit. During her stay, Douglass-Johansen underwent more than eight hours of open heart surgery and more than five hours of reconstructive jaw surgery while being intubated on and off.
She was rushed to the hospital March 20 after her ex-husband, Brandon Allen, reportedly shot her twice while she was sitting in the driver’s seat of her car in front of her home on Goshawk Drive. Her two children were in the backseat. Allen then reportedly led law enforcement on a police pursuit through Longmont and Lyons while armed before being apprehend by a K-9 and brought into custody, where he currently remains on a $5 million bond.
He is set for a preliminary hearing on July 26. Allen and Douglass-Johansen started dating in 2014 and later moved in together when Douglass-Johansen became pregnant with twins, she said. Douglass-Johansen said Allen became verbally and emotionally abusive and would threaten to take the kids, would punch walls and yell at her.
In 2017 after Allen reportedly waved a kitchen knife and motioned for Douglass-Johansen to leave she decided call police. She said that day she left, knowing she’d never go back. “I’m very, ver.