A gunman is claimed to have shot and shot and killed one officer and someone else in a commercial district in a suburb of Denver before he was shot dead by police.
An officer replied by a call at 1:15 p.m. on Monday to a suspicious event next to the library in the town of Arvada, with a 911 call fired and the officer struck, Deputy Chief Ed Brady stated at a news conference. The call took place approximately 15 minutes later. The police officer who was slain was found to be Gordon Beesley, a 19-year-old veteran of Arvada's department, said Denver Post later on Monday.
Another man who thought the gunman was shot was rushed to a hospital and died, the police said. The assailant was killed and shot.
Authorities did not clarify the situation of the incident immediately but indicated that anyone else is suspected of being involved.
Earlier, two suspects had been told by police.
The shooting took place at Olde Town Arvada, the town center of Arvada containing stores, restaurants, bruises, and other companies. It is included in the National Historic Registry and situated about 10 miles northwest of downtown Denver. It is located in the city of Denver.
It is about three months since a shooter fired and murdered 10 people, including a police officer, approximately 20 miles northwest of Arvada at a Safeway in Boulder.
The loss of the police officer in Arvada, the only third in history, was particularly sad, said Mayor of Arvada, Marc Williams, following a huge fire at the adjacent Boulder. The police from Arvada contributed to the attack and investigated it, he said.
"For our Police Department this is by certainly the most sorrowful day," stated Williams.
The mayor added that soon before 14:00 he was in his car in the area. "When I saw literally 11 police cars and their sirens blinking over me. I sensed there had been something severe. I didn't know how serious." I didn't know how serious."
Brady Turner, an Arvada local, said he was pulling into the military and naval stores in the vicinity when he saw police carriages driving into the area and the ambulances between the car park and the store were put into an outpatient stretcher. He claimed in his automobile he took off.
"I simply got out," said Turner. "I just got out of it.
He heard gunshots approximately a block away at the library about five minutes later.
Arvada closed its town hall and canceled the town council meeting in order to offer researchers and other first responders with resources.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis expressed an expression of sympathy to the family and friends of the officer while the Colorado Patrol tweeted: "All our sympathies to the @ Arvada Police and their slain officer's family, blood and blue. We stand with you." We stand with you."
Behind a hearse, a police carriage carried the body of the deceased officer into the coroner's bureau in Jefferson County, some neighbors watched the procession by lining a street with flags.
At the front of a line of around 30 police cars before the parade, John Garrod of Arvada held a black and white band with blue stripes, the flag he hangs out of the house when an officer is slain. He claimed that his son, his brethren-in-law, and his nephew are all in the police force.
"When anything happens, but especially when it comes so close to your house, it breaks my heart," Garrod said. Garrod added. "When I walk to my dog, those are the same officials I wave to."
