Violence Against Servers is Uncommon

Being the bearer of bad news isn’t a popular job.

But rarely does it end in any sort of violence or even murder, as it did for 57-year-old Stephen Allen, the process server whom James Scott Whitler allegedly beat and stabbed Wednesday at Whit-ler’s home west of Loveland.

Steve Carlyle — owner of Front Range Legal Process, which operates out of Fort Collins and Denver — has never heard of such hostility toward a process server.