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Editor s note: This story contains graphic conversations about suicide.
WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (KRDO) The Woodland Park Police Department received at least 11 calls for help preceding the death of a 29-year-old veteran.
13 Investigates discovered officers failed to call mental health resources like they typically do and police department leadership allegedly concealed the records telling the full story.
Calls for help
It was the night before Christmas Eve in 2020. Woodland Park Police Dispatch had answered enough calls to be able to guess what this next call was about.
Jeremy? said the Woodland Park dispatcher when answering a call for a welfare check. ....

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