If the cops aren't willing to leave their sheltered position to subdue an active shooter, why should the civilian? And if any civilian who does so stands a risk of being shot or arrested for saving the day, why should they risk it? But a question I hear often in this age of cell phone video is “Why didn't anyone help”? Well, incidents like this, and the Marine in NYC being prosecuted for subduing the subway lunatic are the reason. A mass shooting is a chaotic event, and maybe, hopefully, the police made a tragic mistake. I don't know how the actual sequence of events went down, but according to the article the police watched the shooter on his rampage, saw him engaged and neutralized by Hurley, and then shot Hurley in the back. So this hero engaged an active shoot are brought him down, and THEN the police came out and shot him. Without announcing “police” or asking him to drop the weapon, Arvada Officer Kraig Brownlow opened the substation door and took aim at Hurley from behind, hitting him in his back pelvis and killing him. These are three officers with bulletproof vests on, and they refused to open the door and go and engage the shooter.”įor 11 seconds, the officers watched Hurley from behind as he was trying to remove ammunition from the automatic rifle, according to court filings. “The officers hid while Johnny did what they were trained to do, that the officers refused to go outside. “That's the information that Arvada did not want the public to know,” said Siddhartha Rathod, the attorney representing Hurley’s family. They had no idea one of their own, Officer Gordon Beesley, had been killed just two minutes earlier. They stayed inside because they worried even the door itself wouldn’t stop a round from an AR-15, according to investigative documents.Įven though Hurley didn’t look anything like the suspect description, they told investigators in an interview later that they couldn’t tell if he was a possibly a second shooter. Hurley continued to try to do the right thing - he moved to disarm the gunman, who was still alive and lying on the ground with his AR-15 nearby, according to Boleyn’s attorneys. “The way he took all the training and practice that he's had and did the right thing.” “I have to admit it's kind of exciting to see the way he handled himself,” said his mother, Kathleen Boleyn. The entire scene was captured on surveillance camera footage. Hurley took aim and fired six rounds from his handgun, five struck the gunman, according to his lawyers. Hurley knelt down behind a brick wall and carefully watched the shooter. On this day in history:Ī year after tragedy struck Olde Town Arvada, a family sues Arvada Police and tries to move on Hurley had trained for active shooter situations - not because it was part of his work, but because he wanted to help people and save lives.Ĭrouching down, he ran across a vacant, shady plaza with umbrellas and tables, gripping his gun as it pointed toward the ground. Happy Thursday Horde! Welcome to the ONT. OctoBehold A Pale Horse: And His Name That Sat On Him Was ONT.
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