Colorado Springs Officer Killed
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I was just about to post on this. This is ridiculous! Two officers in one year. What the hell is happening to our state? The last shooting was the first since 1980. My heart goes out to him and his family and am glad the shooter is likely to survive so he can suffer for the rest of his life.
I was just about to post on this. This is ridiculous! Two officers in one year. What the hell is happening to our state? The last shooting was the first since 1980. My heart goes out to him and his family and am glad the shooter is likely to survive so he can suffer for the rest of his life.
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Saw this on the news early this morning. So sad.... a routine stop for DUI.
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Very sorry to hear this.
What goes through somebody's head that makes them think it's a GOOD idea to pull a gun on a police officer in the first place (let alone actually pull the trigger)?!? How shallow does one have to be to think that the chance (slim though it may be) to skate off a DUI charge could POSSIBLY be worth somebody else's life?
I just don't get it.
What goes through somebody's head that makes them think it's a GOOD idea to pull a gun on a police officer in the first place (let alone actually pull the trigger)?!? How shallow does one have to be to think that the chance (slim though it may be) to skate off a DUI charge could POSSIBLY be worth somebody else's life?
I just don't get it.
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What a tragedy! It also has an impact on the actions that EVERY officer must have in any interaction with a member of the public. Precautions have to be practiced for any stop and this must have an effect on any potential police interaction.
Gary, you ask the million dollar question. What does go through a person's head to justify killing ANYONE?
David, you also hit a good point. There's an old saying in the field when it comes to officer safety, "its not that we don't trust you, its just that we don't trust you."
Lets look at the good side, hopefully the DUI stop might of prevented a even more muderous crime.
David, you also hit a good point. There's an old saying in the field when it comes to officer safety, "its not that we don't trust you, its just that we don't trust you."
Lets look at the good side, hopefully the DUI stop might of prevented a even more muderous crime.
Man, I didn't know him, but god rest his soul. Whats up with the 2 deaths in one year?
Must have been a head shot, since all the officers wear vests. Wish the killer woulda been killed as well. Hope he suffers!
I did the Law Enforcement Memorial in C/S every year. Sad day!
Must have been a head shot, since all the officers wear vests. Wish the killer woulda been killed as well. Hope he suffers!
I did the Law Enforcement Memorial in C/S every year. Sad day!
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I got a DUI and blew almost 3 times the legal limit which is a lot, and at no point did I ever feel like killing the cop would have been the right answer.
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his crotch and may he wake up the next day with arms not long enough to scratch!!!!! PS. I hope his cell mates name is TINY in a Federal Pound Me In The A$$ Prison!!!!!
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his crotch and may he wake up the next day with arms not long enough to scratch!!!!! PS. I hope his cell mates name is TINY in a Federal Pound Me In The A$$ Prison!!!!!
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If anyone read the newwspaper article about the perp, it sounds like there's an even greater tragedy here. This guy had a lot of anger pent up and blamed others for his own sorry excuse for a life. Has our society become so weak and distorted that sociopathic personalites like this can't be detected and treated at an earlier point? In retrospect, this guy had danger signs written all over him...
From the Colorado Springs Gazette: http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1327359
By ANSLEE WILLETT AND BILL MCKEOWN THE GAZETTE
A Colorado Springs police officer whose passion was getting drunks off the road died Tuesday after being shot four times while helping two officers with a traffic stop on the city’s southeast side.
Officer Kenneth Jordan, 32, was pronounced dead at 12:18 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Hospital, less than an hour after being shot several times on Fountain Boulevard near Murray Boulevard.
Jordan, who joined the force in 2000, was the second city officer killed this year in the line of duty — something that has not occurred since 1975
The alleged gunman, Marco Lee, 25, of Colorado Springs, also was shot several times during the gun battle about 11:30 p.m. Monday on a bridge that spans Sand Creek. He was listed in good condition Tuesday at the hospital.
An officer stopped a car at 11:14 p.m. and Jordan, a DUI officer, was called to the scene because the driver was suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Jordan approached the driver’s door as a second officer took cover on the right back side of the car, authorities said. A third officer was in a patrol car.
“The suspect exited the car and started firing,” acting police Chief Dave Felice said.
Two of the officers returned fire, but Jordan did not, authorities said.
The two officers who fired their guns weren’t wounded. They were placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. Their names weren’t released.
Jordan was shot three times in the upper back and shoulder area and once in the abdomen area, just below his bullet-resistant vest, authorities said today.
Jordan is one of eight DUI officers. His duties included helping patrol officers make DUI arrests and conducting roadside sobriety tests.
“I’m sad to see Ken died doing what he loved the most — getting drunks off the road,” said Sgt. Larry Morgan, who supervises the DUI enforcement program.
Lee’s stepbrother, DeAndre Barnes, told The Gazette that Lee called his best friend on a cell phone immediately after he was stopped by police.
“I’m sorry, but this is it,” Lee reportedly told his friend moments before the shooting, Barnes said.
Jordan was a patrol officer with the Sand Creek Division on the city’s southeast side from 2000 until 2004, when he was selected to be a DUI officer.
Felice said Tuesday at a news conference that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the traffic stop and that department policies for such stops were followed.
Felice declined to say what type of gun was used in the shooting, saying the investigation was ongoing.
Jordan made 584 DUI arrests since February 2004. He almost broke the yearly record of 283 when he made 270 arrests in 2005, Morgan said. He was honored in 2004 by Mothers Against Drunk Drivers for his efforts.
“He’s a pretty intense, serious guy when it comes to work. He was no-nonsense and just got the job done,” Morgan said.
“DUI officers can complete DUI arrests in less than half the time of patrol officers,” Morgan said. “Ken was one of the best at that, statistically.”
Jordan was born Sept. 12, 1974, in Chicago and is survived by his mother, father and sister, all of whom were en route Tuesday to Colorado Springs. Felice said Jordan was single and had a girlfriend.
“This is just a real tragic time for us,” he said. “We are all in mourning.”
Felice would not speculate on why the driver opened fire.
Dozens of police went to Memorial Hospital after the shooting to be near Jordan, including more than 30 officers who graduated with him from the police academy in 2000, said Sgt. Otto Knollhoff. Other officers were there from the department’s Sand Creek division, an area covering the city’s southeast side where Jordan was based.
“Everybody was hugging one another and talking about the incident,” said Knollhoff, president of the Colorado Springs Police Protective Association union, which represents about 875 sworn officers, civilian staff and retirees. “We are a giant family, and we take care of each other as best as we can.”
Knollhoff said officers were struggling to cope with the shooting, particularly as it came so soon after the February death of Officer Jared Jensen.
“No department should have to lose an officer let alone lose two within a short period of time. This is devastating for our department, and it’s been a long year for everyone,” he said.
Investigators spent hours swarming the scene collecting evidence and placing it into a mobile crime lab. Late this morning, the suspect’s blue Kia and a police car with a bullet hole in its windshield were towed away. Firefighters hosed down the road, then several police officers stood and saluted the scene. Fountain was then reopened to traffic.
Earlier, police attached a small American flag to the bridge, and it was flying at half-staff.
Shortly after Fountain Boulevard reopened, a makeshift memorial to the police officer sprung up on a sidewalk next to the flag.
Linda Huscher brought a small Christmas tree to the scene of the killing.
“It’s so close to Christmas. That’s one thing that makes it sad,” she said. “But it’s the second policeman killed in less than a year. It was just a crazy, senseless crime. I respect our police officers because they give their lives to make us safer.”
Around 8 p.m., a woman, who declined to give her name but said she was an off-duty police officer who trained with Jordan, added flowers to the dozens of bouquets placed against the curb on the bridge. Candles, stuffed animals ballons and notecards also marked the site.
Incoming police chief Richard Myers, the Appleton, Wis., chief who last week was named as Lou Velez’s replacement, said he received a call at 2 a.m.
“This is just unthinkable, that tragedy can strike twice this year,” Myers said. “My heart is heavy.”
As chief of Appleton’s 105-officer department, he said he’s never had an officer die in the line of duty. “That’s about the only thing I haven’t had to deal with. But I’ve participated in more police funerals than I care to recount.”
Myers said he hopes the community will be supportive of police and mindful of the dangers officers constantly face. “Perhaps by having two of these, the community will resolve to be supporters of the police, to understand why it’s necessary to use certain tactics,” Myers said. “Sometimes those things they have to do are misinterpreted as being overly aggressive.”
Myers plans to attend the slain officer’s funeral.
City Councilman Randy Purvis said the council may need to review the shooting.
“I think we should look into what are the training procedures and what exactly transpired,” he said.
He has no reason to believe the training is inadequate, he said, but after two incidents in the past year, it’s worth looking at. Shootings are the most common cause of law enforcement deaths nationwide, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The fund tracked 1,635 deaths from 1996 to last year, including 589 officers who were shot.
The fund has identified more than 17,500 officers killed nationwide since 1792, including 231 in Colorado.
Jordan was the 12th Colorado Springs police officer to be killed in the line of duty since the city’s founding. He was the second officer killed here this year after two decades during which no police were killed.
“It points to the random nature of line-of-duty deaths,” said Bruce Mendelsohn, spokesman for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. “A law enforcement officer dies in the line of duty every 53 or 54 hours. There is no rhyme or reason as to where that death occurs.”
Colorado Springs Police Officer Jared Jensen, 30, was killed Feb. 22 near Memorial Park while trying to arrest a fugitive. He was shot once in the face from less than an inch away at a bus bench at Costilla Street and Hancock Avenue. His gun wasn’t drawn.
Jensen’s alleged killer, 31-year-old Jereme Lamberth, was charged with first-degree murder. Lamberth was wanted at the time for allegedly stabbing his sister about a dozen times.
Lamberth was expected last month to enter his plea in Jensen’s killing, but it was postponed until Jan. 25. Prosecutors will have 60 days from the arraignment to announce whether they’ll seek the death penalty.
Staff members DeeDee Correll, Bill Hethcock, Dennis Huspeni, Anthony Lane, Bill McKeown, Annie Mullin, Tom Roeder, Perry Swanson, Trudy Thomas, Bill Vogrin and Pam Zubeck contributed to this report.
By ANSLEE WILLETT AND BILL MCKEOWN THE GAZETTE
A Colorado Springs police officer whose passion was getting drunks off the road died Tuesday after being shot four times while helping two officers with a traffic stop on the city’s southeast side.
Officer Kenneth Jordan, 32, was pronounced dead at 12:18 a.m. Tuesday at Memorial Hospital, less than an hour after being shot several times on Fountain Boulevard near Murray Boulevard.
Jordan, who joined the force in 2000, was the second city officer killed this year in the line of duty — something that has not occurred since 1975
The alleged gunman, Marco Lee, 25, of Colorado Springs, also was shot several times during the gun battle about 11:30 p.m. Monday on a bridge that spans Sand Creek. He was listed in good condition Tuesday at the hospital.
An officer stopped a car at 11:14 p.m. and Jordan, a DUI officer, was called to the scene because the driver was suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Jordan approached the driver’s door as a second officer took cover on the right back side of the car, authorities said. A third officer was in a patrol car.
“The suspect exited the car and started firing,” acting police Chief Dave Felice said.
Two of the officers returned fire, but Jordan did not, authorities said.
The two officers who fired their guns weren’t wounded. They were placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. Their names weren’t released.
Jordan was shot three times in the upper back and shoulder area and once in the abdomen area, just below his bullet-resistant vest, authorities said today.
Jordan is one of eight DUI officers. His duties included helping patrol officers make DUI arrests and conducting roadside sobriety tests.
“I’m sad to see Ken died doing what he loved the most — getting drunks off the road,” said Sgt. Larry Morgan, who supervises the DUI enforcement program.
Lee’s stepbrother, DeAndre Barnes, told The Gazette that Lee called his best friend on a cell phone immediately after he was stopped by police.
“I’m sorry, but this is it,” Lee reportedly told his friend moments before the shooting, Barnes said.
Jordan was a patrol officer with the Sand Creek Division on the city’s southeast side from 2000 until 2004, when he was selected to be a DUI officer.
Felice said Tuesday at a news conference that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the traffic stop and that department policies for such stops were followed.
Felice declined to say what type of gun was used in the shooting, saying the investigation was ongoing.
Jordan made 584 DUI arrests since February 2004. He almost broke the yearly record of 283 when he made 270 arrests in 2005, Morgan said. He was honored in 2004 by Mothers Against Drunk Drivers for his efforts.
“He’s a pretty intense, serious guy when it comes to work. He was no-nonsense and just got the job done,” Morgan said.
“DUI officers can complete DUI arrests in less than half the time of patrol officers,” Morgan said. “Ken was one of the best at that, statistically.”
Jordan was born Sept. 12, 1974, in Chicago and is survived by his mother, father and sister, all of whom were en route Tuesday to Colorado Springs. Felice said Jordan was single and had a girlfriend.
“This is just a real tragic time for us,” he said. “We are all in mourning.”
Felice would not speculate on why the driver opened fire.
Dozens of police went to Memorial Hospital after the shooting to be near Jordan, including more than 30 officers who graduated with him from the police academy in 2000, said Sgt. Otto Knollhoff. Other officers were there from the department’s Sand Creek division, an area covering the city’s southeast side where Jordan was based.
“Everybody was hugging one another and talking about the incident,” said Knollhoff, president of the Colorado Springs Police Protective Association union, which represents about 875 sworn officers, civilian staff and retirees. “We are a giant family, and we take care of each other as best as we can.”
Knollhoff said officers were struggling to cope with the shooting, particularly as it came so soon after the February death of Officer Jared Jensen.
“No department should have to lose an officer let alone lose two within a short period of time. This is devastating for our department, and it’s been a long year for everyone,” he said.
Investigators spent hours swarming the scene collecting evidence and placing it into a mobile crime lab. Late this morning, the suspect’s blue Kia and a police car with a bullet hole in its windshield were towed away. Firefighters hosed down the road, then several police officers stood and saluted the scene. Fountain was then reopened to traffic.
Earlier, police attached a small American flag to the bridge, and it was flying at half-staff.
Shortly after Fountain Boulevard reopened, a makeshift memorial to the police officer sprung up on a sidewalk next to the flag.
Linda Huscher brought a small Christmas tree to the scene of the killing.
“It’s so close to Christmas. That’s one thing that makes it sad,” she said. “But it’s the second policeman killed in less than a year. It was just a crazy, senseless crime. I respect our police officers because they give their lives to make us safer.”
Around 8 p.m., a woman, who declined to give her name but said she was an off-duty police officer who trained with Jordan, added flowers to the dozens of bouquets placed against the curb on the bridge. Candles, stuffed animals ballons and notecards also marked the site.
Incoming police chief Richard Myers, the Appleton, Wis., chief who last week was named as Lou Velez’s replacement, said he received a call at 2 a.m.
“This is just unthinkable, that tragedy can strike twice this year,” Myers said. “My heart is heavy.”
As chief of Appleton’s 105-officer department, he said he’s never had an officer die in the line of duty. “That’s about the only thing I haven’t had to deal with. But I’ve participated in more police funerals than I care to recount.”
Myers said he hopes the community will be supportive of police and mindful of the dangers officers constantly face. “Perhaps by having two of these, the community will resolve to be supporters of the police, to understand why it’s necessary to use certain tactics,” Myers said. “Sometimes those things they have to do are misinterpreted as being overly aggressive.”
Myers plans to attend the slain officer’s funeral.
City Councilman Randy Purvis said the council may need to review the shooting.
“I think we should look into what are the training procedures and what exactly transpired,” he said.
He has no reason to believe the training is inadequate, he said, but after two incidents in the past year, it’s worth looking at. Shootings are the most common cause of law enforcement deaths nationwide, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. The fund tracked 1,635 deaths from 1996 to last year, including 589 officers who were shot.
The fund has identified more than 17,500 officers killed nationwide since 1792, including 231 in Colorado.
Jordan was the 12th Colorado Springs police officer to be killed in the line of duty since the city’s founding. He was the second officer killed here this year after two decades during which no police were killed.
“It points to the random nature of line-of-duty deaths,” said Bruce Mendelsohn, spokesman for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. “A law enforcement officer dies in the line of duty every 53 or 54 hours. There is no rhyme or reason as to where that death occurs.”
Colorado Springs Police Officer Jared Jensen, 30, was killed Feb. 22 near Memorial Park while trying to arrest a fugitive. He was shot once in the face from less than an inch away at a bus bench at Costilla Street and Hancock Avenue. His gun wasn’t drawn.
Jensen’s alleged killer, 31-year-old Jereme Lamberth, was charged with first-degree murder. Lamberth was wanted at the time for allegedly stabbing his sister about a dozen times.
Lamberth was expected last month to enter his plea in Jensen’s killing, but it was postponed until Jan. 25. Prosecutors will have 60 days from the arraignment to announce whether they’ll seek the death penalty.
Staff members DeeDee Correll, Bill Hethcock, Dennis Huspeni, Anthony Lane, Bill McKeown, Annie Mullin, Tom Roeder, Perry Swanson, Trudy Thomas, Bill Vogrin and Pam Zubeck contributed to this report.
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