NEW: “Good Samaritan” Johnny Hurley died needlessly because nearby Arvada police officers failed to confront a gunman and an officer failed to announce himself as police before shooting Hurley from behind, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed today.
“We’d take him back in a heartbeat,” Snelling said.
“If in those 11 seconds, they had announced themselves, Johnny would’ve put down the gun and raised his hand,” she said.A diagram created by the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office shows the area in Olde Town Arvada where Ronald Troyke, Officer Gordon Beesley and Johnny Hurley were killed. Many people in the vicinity heard the gunshots, including Hurley inside the nearby Army Navy Surplus store and the three Arvada police offices in an unmarked office building about 100 feet from Beesley’s body. The three officers, including Brownlow, scrambled inside the building but did not go outside despite seeing Troyke with the rifle,In interviews after the shooting, the officers said they worried about the man outgunning them because he had a rifle and they had handguns.
Brownlow watched Hurley holding the rifle and thought he was reloading it, the documents show. After watching Hurley through a window, Brownlow decided to shoot him without announcing himself.
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