Shootout as he served an eviction notice the right now Law Enforcement officials and First Responders are escorting the hearse carrying the body of corporal carrigan. We are awaiting information about services. You see the hearse on highway 285. We are also waiting to hear from park county sheriff fred wegner. Im alan ginot. Lets go right to that News Conference with the sheriff now. Regarding yesterdays tragedy, first, i want to thank the community for their thoughts and prayers during this difficult time for our office. And i also want to thank the Law Enforcement community. Their outpouring of support has been overwhelming and they truly i would like to talk a little bit about nate carrigan. Office. Nate works tirelessly. He has been working as an fto. Community. Law enforcement professional. The loss will be felt for a time. Nate began with my office in 2003. Nate also graduated from black canyon high school. He was in the class of 1999. Nate was a baseball coach, football coach at
To work to terminate mama saw this woman now identified as 30 yearold mia hamilton she left her room at lovelands budget host host motel and approached a parked minivan. She went to that door when she seen who was in the door slid she took off running singh who was inside the eddies of the women started screaming and bolted should only got to two about here i think them the van he grabbed her by the arm and she was in the van and a time shes heard her screams turned pleas for help. I kind of ball that appear with my pickup i think may be noticed. And they can squealing around me pictured here in surveillance photos of was like they knew what they were doing because no plates and nothing he says that there were at least two men in the car one man looked right at him was wondering about getting get out and he was now hes left a meanwhile in boulder the sketch of a man tried to lower a teenage girl into a car to take a good look at the sketch they say they try to talk to a 14 yearold girl
Mountain as we move into the evening. While he wanted to be here, he wanted me to express that reason why he is not typical he also wanted to express his thoughts. This has been a tremendous outpouring. We greatly appreciate this. Especially the sheriff. We were we are hoping that he will sheriff. It will be tonight most likely. As you know a news release recently sent out detailed the events of the day, it listed county Sheriffs Office who were shot. It also provided a little bit of an update from the sheriff himself. If you dont have access to it on the Jefferson County the cbi is also sending this out to their list serve. You have a lot of opportunities to receive this information. Before we provide an update of would like to talk a little bit about Corporal Nate Carrigan. I dont profess to be able to share the stories that are going to be released about nate and what he is meant to his community. And what he has done to help everyone around him. What i do know is that he served his
Officer and a long time football and baseball coach. His players, you can imagine, are heartbroken. Our coach, we can play for him and try to continue on what he would have wanted us to do. Reporter of course, every officer Nate Carrigan no different had their favorite lunch spot here inside the rustic station where he ordered the green chili all the time. Wed tease him about what hes going to eat today and stuff like that. They all were very, very sweet, just a very kindhearted man and hes going to be dearly missed. Reporter those here talk about those memories and stories of nate with a big smile on their face, the same big smile they say nate always had on his face. Its an especially tough time around the school right now because hes been visiting a lot because baseball season is coming up. The season starts on monday. Were live in bailey mark boyle, denver7. Thank you, mark. After the shooting yesterday there was a lot of patrol deputy colby martin. He was shot several times. Hes s
Moment where the community is corporal. The suspect martin wirth was confrontation when officers came to his home to evict him. Wirth was an activist and rallied against police, republicans, banks and foreclosures. Corporal Nate Carrigan is the first officer with the Clark County Sheriffs Office to be killed in the line of duty. Master patrol Deputy Colby Martin was shot several times and is currently in critical condition. 9news reporter whitney wild is in clark county where the community is rallying around tonight. Reporter kyle, investigators will continue to comb through evidence, continue several days. Deputies clearly knew that martin wirth was dangerous. Around 9 45 this morning eight deputies including the sheriff himself attempted to serve what eviction. Deputies say when they got there, wirth came out on his deck and then went back inside. Deputies followed and moments tonight a community is in pain. In a tight knit town dozens gathered to remember and reflect on their fallen