Officer shooting in Arvada

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

RIP

Monday evening, the Arvada Police Department confirmed Officer Gordon Beesley died in the shooting. Beesley, a 19-year veteran with the department, was also a school resource officer at Oberon Middle School who worked patrol while school was out for the summer

The “good Samaritan“ has either been identified or explained. I read a report that someone who saw the shooter said he looked “detached“.

i’m fine with withholding the other two identities to give the police officer the recognition that he deserves. But with the media the way it is anytime they slow roll something I think they’re screwing around. Obviously the “good Samaritan“ means some thing, but they aren’t explaining it. Rendering aid? A CCW that engage the shooter? Something in between?

One report said three bursts of gunfire. A final burst doesn’t fit into the bad guy shooting himself.

I don’t mean to speculate but when they withhold stuff and tease out just the smallest bits it leads you to try to figure out what they are trying to imply.

[Irving]

The story earlier was that the media was being kept at bay. Is it possible that they still don't know what happened enough to report? With the media race to be first to report something, even if it's wrong, it sure stands out when they don't say anything.

[yankeefan98121]

He was the resource officer at Oberon where our kids went when we lived in Arvada.

There’s so much that can’t be put into words right now…Rest in peace Officer Beesley

[Hummer]

Bummer. People who risk their lives every day to ensure peace and protect the innocent....

I attended Oberon when it first opened as a new school. We didn't need police in the schools back then.

[clworth22]

There’s a huge homeless problem in downtown Arvada, due to a church feeding them in the courtyard vicinity. I wonder if that is related.

[3beansalad]

There?s a huge homeless problem in downtown Arvada, due to a church feeding them in the courtyard vicinity. I wonder if that is related.

Until we know for sure, it's all conjecture. Inwill say I ate lunch at Schoolhouse a couple months back, and parked behind the library. My experience with the homeless roaming around that makes it entirely plausible.

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[.455_Hunter]

Why is there an information blackout?

[Hoser]

Sometimes notification of next of kin takes time.

Just a guess.

[3beansalad]

I hope the PD is controlling the information, and we never hear the murderer's name publicly.

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[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Why is there an information blackout?

Sometimes notification of next of kin takes time.

Just a guess.

If you haven?t found next of kin yet, it?s because they don?t want to be found. I don?t mind them honoring the fallen officer, but this is getting into the realm of managing the news. Get the information out and then honor the fallen officer. The perp I don?t care about that much but the bystander, or ?good Samaritan? lost his life to. Not to be callous, but this is a gun related forum, and our governor just signed three devastating anti-civil rights laws just days ago related to guns. Comparisons to the Boulder shooting are being made which triggered many of those. But for some reason we are being spoonfed information. It?s not the governments job to manage the story. It?s bad enough when the press does it. Never mind that there seems to be a shooting on Colfax nightly with multiple deaths. That information gets out and ignored instantly.