Karen morfitt with more on the deputies, and new details about the suspect. We start with tom mustin with the latest on the case. Tom. Reporter well, karen, its quiet now here at the platt can young fire station. You can see the flags at half mast. Dozens of deputies worked around the clock on this case, and tonight is a time to remember their fallen come regard. He served his community in a superior way and he made the ultimate sacrifice. Reporter officers swarmd this bailey swarmed this bailey home after the death of nate carrigan. Carrigan and two other park county deputies went to the friendship ranch subdivision to serve an e vigs notice to resident martin wirth. He came out on his deck, then went back inside. Officers followed him inside the home, and wirth opened fire with a rifle. What i heard was the ars going sxauf it freaked me sxauf it freaked me out. Also injured. Martin is in Critical Condition. Wirth died after deputies returned fire. Wirths neighbors says he had predict
Later when they caught up with the suspects they took one into custody but there was an issue with the other. They say that suspect other appeared to have a weapon so an officer fired at him and he died of injuries. We are unclear if the first suspect was the one that may have had the weapon. Still a lot of details we need cleared up in terms of the time line. Were getting our information from Greeley Police even though this involved two officers from evans police. Theres a separate agency that oversees these type of investigations when you have an officer involved shooting. Of course behind me we are dealing with quite a traffic situation. Joel is here to help us figure out how to get around this. Heres la sal and greeley up top there and highway 85 thats closed. Within the red circle theres a local detour. Head south and back on to highway 85 and highway 52. Youre stuck there with semis and other vehicles so its going to add a lot of time to your commute. Its easier to take highway 3
It was nuts up here. This is the mountains. You have extremist up here. Who knows who your neighbor is. Meanwhile the investigation goes on into exactly what went wrong. And led to so much bloodshed. We have been gathering details sp sharing information. On our web site. Facebook and twitter. Throughout the day. Especially between newscast. Sign up for push notifications on kdvr. Com. And get Additional Details including new revelations about the gunman. And the latest details on the deputies injured and killed. We started a tribute. On our facebook page. Go there and offer your condolences. A young woman. Furious after police lose evidence. Of a sex crime against her. The evidence that vanished. Video that actually showed the crime. A teenage employee being watched. As Investigative Reporter discovered the case hasnt just been dismissed. It may soon be sealed. 20 yearold has the most obvious question. To the most disturbing circumstance. How do you lose evidence. Youre not even suppos
On the streets each and every day. Reporter a lot of broken hearts here today. A lot of questions, too, about what happened. There will be another press Conference Tomorrow. This flag is at halfstaff now to honor an American Hero killed in the line of duty. Were live in bailey tonight, tom mustin, cbs4 news. Tom, thank you. Cbs4s mark taylor is live outside of martin wirths home, also in bailey where the shooting happens. Mark, investigators have been there, combing the scene all day. Reporter this has been a very active scene, all day long. Jim, we want to boeing r point out right now, several crews on scene, from multiple Different Police officer agency, theyve been here all day keeping this area shut down. This whole incident happened just before 10 00 this morning, we did get a chance to talk to several of wirths neighbors, they say that martin wishth kept to himself, but they were aware of his eviction situation. One neighbor says he had several altercations with the police, where
More information. We will bring the update to you as soon as we get it. Now to the traffic situation. A couple streets blocked off so a tricky maneuver to get around this. This is tough for morning commuters. If youre trying to access denver from greeley or commerce city, a lot of people are using highway 85. Its an option for you. The local option is take 37th and find your way south to highway 52 and make your way back to 85 but that adds time. These roads are not used to handling the amount of volume coming through. So if you live to the south of greeley add extra time to your commute. Thanks for the update, joel. Lets look at our wind speeds. Pass. Expect high elevations today and better than yesterday. 22 at dia. 19 in avon. Satellite and radar show clouds this morning but quickly moving. Should be a nice day today. 44 degrees at noon and by 2 00 were in the 40s and should have a nice sunny day for us. Well talk more about the weekend warm up in a moment. Thanks lauren. I want to