He wanted to stay with both families by their side throughout the entire afternoon. That was his priority. As we move forward to the day and into the evening he is going to come back up the mountain and meet with his team here and do some other things to really take care of each other. He wanted to be here but he wanted me to express why he isnt and what he isnt and also share his thoughts of thanks and great pride for the community. It has been a great outpouring of support and truly loved. We appreciate that, especially at sheriff. We are hoping the sheriff will make comments at some point. It wont be today and it wont be tonight but we will really stay with that piece. As you know, a news release was recently sent out but the clark county sheriffs Sheriffs Department detailing the events of the day and a listing those members of the park county Sheriffs Department who were update from the sheriff himself. If you dont have access to that information you can find on the Jefferson Coun
On the streets each and every day. Reporter a lot of broken hearts here today. A lot of questions, too, about what happened. There will be another press Conference Tomorrow. This flag is at halfstaff now to honor an American Hero killed in the line of duty. Were live in bailey tonight, tom mustin, cbs4 news. Tom, thank you. Cbs4s mark taylor is live outside of martin wirths home, also in bailey where the shooting happens. Mark, investigators have been there, combing the scene all day. Reporter this has been a very active scene, all day long. Jim, we want to boeing r point out right now, several crews on scene, from multiple Different Police officer agency, theyve been here all day keeping this area shut down. This whole incident happened just before 10 00 this morning, we did get a chance to talk to several of wirths neighbors, they say that martin wishth kept to himself, but they were aware of his eviction situation. One neighbor says he had several altercations with the police, where
And to the man accused of shooting the deputy but were in the latest on the ongoing. I was just told that park county has 58 sworn deputies on its staff this is the first time one of them has been killed in the line of duty. It started about 9 30 a. M. When the three deputies went to serving serve an eviction notice. It was a high risk notice things being served on 59 yearold martin wirth who had been fighting the eviction for a long time and had previous runins with the Police Department but before we were told there was nothing violent. The sheriff just had just left the scene and was about to go on the property. Were told wirth went out on the balcony, turned around and went back inside deputies followed him inside and when they did, he shot at them. They killed Corporal Nate Kerrigan and shot and critically wounded Deputy Kolby Martin than thing grazed captain mark there was a Massive Police presence at the area earlier today. Initially they sent out the bomb squad and swat teams a
And highway 85, you can see all the flashing lights in both directions. We were coming from the south, police made us get off at around 42nd and of course i saw police tape everywhere on both sides of the highway and they have this huge area blocked off. Were hearing unconfirmed reports we dont want to get out there yet until e get it confirmed with police. Theyre going to give us updates when they can. Clearly a very active scene. A new scene as well. There will be a lot of information coming in at some point this morning, we just nothing confirmed. You can see clearly its a huge scene that has a large highway blocked off. So thats clearly going to cause issues for commuters this morning, because both directions are closed and jayson luber has details on that. Its going to be a mess. It will beelater on this morning. Now through evans on the south its well traveled but not heavy traveled at this hour. South side of greeley right there in that town of evans, this is the section eric wa
Not highly traveled at least right now. No information from greeley when it will reopen. Well have that information as the morning continues. Rest of the ride in town looks okay. Pena boulevard, i25 or the south side, and here in denver were quiet. He was just doing his job. You couldnt ask for better. We have great deputies up here. Hes with the right person right now. Hes with god. A heart broken Community Comes together mourning the loss of a sheriffs deputy in an act of senseless violence. We appreciate you joining us for denver 7. Im mitch jelniker. Im kellie patterson. In park county one deputy killed and two others wounded trying serve an eviction notice. One neighbor tells us this isnt the first time deputies wirth. After Digging Deeper into his criminal past. Also we want to share breaking international news. A university in south africa is closed indefinitely. You can see these pictures, protests turn violent. After the student elections students ban protesting and turned int