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
Members of the Sheriffs Office is looking for a 30 yearold woman kidnapped early this morning from a hotel of 525 thanks for joining us tonight and Jeremy Hubbard and im Deborah Takara the crime happened about 630 this morning at the Budget Host Motel that Johnsons Corner the craggy editor is live in the area with an explicit that men try to stop the kidnapping from happening right here in the parking lot of the motel it happened right where you see the crime tape you set by the time he figured out what was happening it was too little too late now hes providing investigators everything he knows to help find the hamilton. I wish i wouldve stopped him somehow. A shocking crime in a very public place they were backed in my here early this morning on his way to work getting mama saw this woman now identified as 30 yearold mia hamilton hamilton she left the room at lovelands Budget Host Hotel hotel and approached a parked minivan p macke went to whoever was when the door slid doors which he
This sunday morning. If youve been outside this morning you know its nice already. Yesterday was amazing. Degrees. Now, we did have a cold front roll in which means its not going to be as warm this afternoon but its not affecting our temperatures this morning. Lets take a look outside and you can see it is gorgeous. Look at the beautiful blue skies we are dealing with. We will have a few more clouds move in but today well see sunshine, which will be nice. Across the metro area. Those have calmed down for now, but if you look out onto the eastern plains, we are seeing stronger winds there. Right now in fort morgan, 20 miles per hour. These are going to pick up through the day and we are going to see windy conditthroughout the week as a result of ome of the warm temperatures well be dealing with. Were at 50 degrees downtown already. We have a lot of 40s. Few 50s. Aurora 49, parker at 45. And evening will play out. Temperatures are going to warm to the upper 50s into the low 60s. Across t
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