Id gladly trade my l i mean, no sheriff wants to lose one of his people. Six months after Corporal Carrigan was killed in an ambush, now opening up about the loss as he faces a possible lawsuit from his family. Another colorado top cop finds himself behind bars, the reason why remains a mystery, except for two words. Im more proud of hill than i can even describe. He lost his life lending a hand in a war zone. Memory survives. A popular entertainment venue has its sights on a second location near denver, but some say no way and after a gloomy tuesday, many of us could wake up with showers. As for the weekend, well, kathy will tell you. 9news starts now. Its been six months since the shooting in park county that left a sheriffs deputy dead and two sheriff fred wagner talked about the night that Corporal Nate Carrigan was killed. Also hundreds of documents released from his investigation. He spoke with Victoria Sanchez to talk about an eviction that ended tragically. Reporter on february
This up. While running from officers down this alley, the suspected drug dealer allegedly through 17 bags of heroin over this fence. 3 on the other side is a doggie daycare. One of those dogs ate an entire bag and had to be rushed to the vet. The owner of the dog once the suspect to pay. You cant process the fact that your dog eight heroin. She is high on heroin. We are treating her that you need to come as soon as you reporter the whole thing caught on camera. I am upset. I am grateful she is alive. Reporter you cant see the suspect throw the drugs in the video but that is charlie and what she is eating is a full bag of heroin. Scattered all over. Reporter a few seconds later, an employee starts picking up the baggies. 17 baggies were found in our playroom not including the five they tried to swallow. The employees saved her life. Reporter charlies owner to the vet. Charlie is doing much better now. But laura says when she got the call at work, they didnt know if she would make it. I
Pleasant this weekend. An upper level disturbance is going to cause more cloud cover today and the chance of storms later this afternoon we picked up a little moisture off to the west but we are looking at potential for flooding until 10 15 for parts of east central Cheyenne County. We have seen a lot of rainfall there. If youre driving out there, please be extra careful. Currently outside and across the state, 66 on the slope and Grand Junction, 40s in the mountains and denver seeing 63 degrees right now. Our highs today will get toasty, mid to upper 80s, and we have a chance of storms in the forecast. Ill have that breakdown coming up in a few minutes. We are still following developments this morning out of parker after a deputy was yesterday afternoon. Amanda del castillo is monitoring his condition. The latest update came from the douglas counny sheriff overnight, reading that detective brite was moved to icu. The suspect was in this rv after driving away from his home. The sheriff
He spoke with Victoria Sanchez to talk about an eviction that ended tragically. Reporter on february 24, eight park county sheriffs deputies, including the sheriff himself came up with a plan to remove bailey resident mcworth from his home. Within minutes of arriving three deputies and worth were shot. Nobody thought when wed go in and get him he would ambush our officers. Reporter usually two deputies are used to serve but they knew wirth was a threat. According to the Colorado Bureau of investigation, a few weeks prior to the shoot, the jeff Co Sheriffs Office got a complaint saying wirth made threats, he would shoot the first officer he saw. Still, they thought he would run or barricade himself inside his home, which is why he didnt bring out his s. W. A. T. Team for the eviction. We didnt feel it rose to that level, its probably a double edged sword. If i sent the s. W. A. T. Team to wouldve said you overreacted. At this particular time with the situation we had information we had,
I heard another burst of shots about 10 to 20. Reporter when it was over the man in the rv was shot dead by an officer a Douglas County deputy was rushed to the hospital. I knew he was in good hands. I asked the community to stop and say a prayer. Reporter the drama unfolding around 3 30 this deputies were called house on the outskirts of parker amid concerns of domestic dispute involving a suicidal man. The man deputies follooed the rv. Steps away from a preschool middle School Hospital and health club. It was pretty loud. Id say in total probably went on for a good 5 to 7 minutes just nonstop shootinging. Hurt the shooter was known to them. Power of prayer is important and i think it can help him. Reporter detective bright comes from a Law Enforcement family his wife also works for the sheriffs office. Im told his family has gathered to be with him here tooight. We are live in parker, mark 3 Stewart Denver 7. Mark thanks. Tonight were hearing the calls from deputies as they saw one o