The Summit County Sheriff says mental health professionals had recently tried several times to help a young local man who was in crisis. But over the weekend, a deputy and a police officer shot and killed him. The shooting locked that neighborhood down for hours, and triggered an alert that got that whole county’s attention…
230710 dispatch tape :03 Q:…gun in hand…
Before that call came in Sunday morning, Summit dispatchers had heard something similar the night before. The Sheriff’s office says multiple people had called about a person wandering around a neighborhood near Lake Dillon, waving a gun and banging on random people’s doors. Six calls in all, the last one about 7:30 Sunday morning…
230710 dressed in black :07 Q:…yelling outside now…
A Sheriff’s deputy and a Dillon Police officer responded…
230710 thought it was a kid :04 Q:…mental health crisis…
Authorities now say that suspect was actually an adult man, someone their mental health team had talked to before. But according to the Sheriff’s office, he had refused help…
230710 sheriff- multiple calls :11 Q:… 3 weeks…
They add the man didn’t obey verbal commands, then pointed his gun at the officers…
230710 as he pointed the gun :10 Q:…shots fired…
Both the deputy and the Dillon officer fired, and the man died at the scene.