Officers, restaurant workers and dispatchers were honored for their bravery last December when a gunman shot and killed five people in Denver and Lakewood.
The four Democratic U.S. House members from Colorado wrote to the Department of Justice’s inspector general Thursday asking him to investigate what information was shared between law enforcement agencies about the man who killed five people in an attack across Denver and Lakewood late last month.
Officer Ferris, who was shot in the abdomen by the suspect accused of killing 5 in a Denver and Lakewood shooting spree, was released from the hospital Thursday.
Denver police received a tip in January 2021 from someone who cited concerns about that the man responsible for shooting and killing five people and injuring two others in Denver and Lakewood last week but decided at the time criminal charges were not warranted. That investigation is being reviewed.
A man concerned about the behavior of author Lyndon McLeod (pictured) before the crazed gunman began a deadly massacre in Denver that began December 27 at Sol Tribe tattoo shop (pictured)