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Johnny Hurley (Photo courtesy of Cody Soules via Denver7)Johnny Hurley, hailed by constabulary arsenic a “good Samaritan” for his actions during the Olde Town Arvada shooting successful June, was killed by a azygous gunshot to the pelvis aft a responding serviceman mistakenly assumed Hurley was the progressive shooter, according to a coroner’s study released Monday.
Forensic pathologist John D. Carver formally ruled Hurley’s decease a homicide, owed to that gunshot wound, successful the study released by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.
The study details the events of June 21, erstwhile Hurley confronted progressive shooter Ronald Troyke, who had conscionable changeable and killed Arvada constabulary Officer Gordon Beesley with a shotgun.
After Troyke returned to his conveyance to speech the shotgun for what constabulary person described arsenic an AR-15 rifle, Hurley — who had been buying adjacent — approached the gunman “and changeable him respective times,” according to the report.
Hurley “then removed Troyke’s battle firearm from his body,” Carver wrote successful the autopsy report. “Another responding serviceman past saw the decedent holding the battle rifle, and fired his handgun astatine him, mistakenly assuming that the decedent was the progressive shooter.”
Doctors astatine Lutheran Medical Center successful Wheat Ridge declared Hurley dormant soon aft helium arrived astatine the hospital, according to the report.
The autopsy study describes the coiled to the pelvis, fired from “indeterminate range,” arsenic entering the close precocious buttock. There was nary exit wound, according to the report.
The Arvada Police Department has acknowledged that 1 of its officers fatally changeable Hurley aft the 40-year-old picked up Troyke’s AR-15. A captious incidental effect squad probe of the shooting has been presented to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, which volition regularisation whether the serviceman who changeable Hurley was justified.
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