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
30 in 32 in monticello low. Winds are north and west at ten to 20. Gusting to 25 today. Plenty of cloud coverage. Going to see some clearing as the day rolls on. In the sky over iowa, going to comb clear. The temps dont warm too much. Right about normal this time of year. Stick around. Well talk about the end of the week and a superb and comfortable weekend. Tracking the details in cedar rapids and the first homicide of 2016. Still a lot of Unanswered Questions right now. Stephanie has the latest from the scene. Reporter police are still conducting interviews and are not releasing any leads into this investigation. Happened at the complex behind me was no random act of violence. Joseph perkins was killed. Originally from chicago. The other person shot on tuesday was hit in the leg and he did survive. Police have not released his name to public yet, but theres an increase of violence. The police chief said the solution to this problem needs to come from the entire community. Violence is
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
Well bring you the latest details here on denver 7 and thedenverchannel. Com. Also keeping a close eye on a Death Investigation from overnight, after police kill and shoot a man in evans. Happened before sunup. Denver7s eric lupher was the first reporter on scene. Eric. Reporter mitch, kellie, i 85 is still closed for this investigation. That issbecause you can see the weld county sheriffs command unit is here, the mobile command and theyre here still gathering evidence. This comes one day after the tragedy in park county. I heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, like that. Just like that. At least 10 or 12. Reporter witnesses react to what they saw this morning off highway 85 in evans. It sounds like the craziest, scariest thing ive ever heard. Reporter police fired on a suspect, killing him. I dont know whats going reporter it started as a trespassing call. Police saying officers chased down two men, one of them turning and firing. After police set up a perimeter they confront