the most safest possible way while the suspect was continuing to shoot at officers. so there was, there was a plan to deal with someone who was shooting at them and to do a officer rescue. they put that plan together very quickly, and i think very efficiently. and at some point the suspect engaged officers and was shot and killed. reporter: zack was the first one in? i don t know who was the first one in. i can t tell you that. reporter: you said that the roommate was cooperating with the investigation. can you talk a little bit about how he s helping you and what he s told you? all i can say is he met with detectives just a few moments ago and is cooperating with all their questions. reporter: you said the suspect engaged with officers at some point. was that was he inside the apartment? did he come inside the apartment? he engaged them inside the apartment. reporter: will there be charges filed against the roommate? it s too early for me to
the 18 judicial district and support units. they are helping us. there will be a lot of folks here and i thank you for doing that and i thank you for your prayers. i ask you for that again. it s not a simple thing. it is a very meaningful thing to pray for zack s family. they are still coming into town and his wife and two little people. i will answer a few questions. a lot of stuff that we are not going to share at this point and i apologize up front. i will do a few questions if you have some. can you give us a sense of the timeline of how long this unfolded and how you finally brought it to a conclusion? we responded to the residence at 5:14 this morning on a verbal disturbance. it was almost immediately after
[inaudible] how does the department deal with such difficult events and such [inaudible] well, i have good friends standing behind me who have been through this before, and i have good support mechanism through the county, and that s where it s very important. commissioner dave weaver who used to be my boss came and was there, support. so it s great to have a support mechanism to help us, because this is not something that you can go to school to learn how to do. so i ve been asking them all questions about am i doing the right thing. the key here is taking care of zack s family and taking care of the family of the officers and the officers who survived this and make sure that we can get through it on the other side and
the suspect continued shooting at the officers over zack. the time frame, how long it was before we went in there and got zack and eventually was engaged with the suspect and shot and killed him, i can get you the time frame. i don t have it available to me. one in the apartment with the suspect and one was a neighbor. there were two that showed up. there was two separate people and not the person involved in the disturbance. the civilians were injured. were they in other apartments? i believe in other apartments, but i need to clarify that to lock it in for you. we respond to every call anticipating that everyone has a gun. this is colorado.
family of the officers and the officers who survived this and make sure we can get through it on the other side. and continue to do what we do best and that is provide a service, a public service to the people of douglas county to try to keep them safe. try to eradicate this type of behavior and that s what the officers are doing in the middle of the night. they go to the calls hundreds of times and all turn out okay. unfortunately tonight did not turn out okay for zack and the other officers. i have a lot of support mechanisms and a lot of folks here. my command staff are at my side all the time. really what we are trying to do right now is to figure out how we can put together a farewell service. and the service that he did for the citizens of douglas county. were all of your deputies