On a Monday afternoon in June last year, 20 gunshots occurred in Avada, Old Town. The windows shattered, three people died, and the sense of security of people who lived and worked nearby was destroyed.

In less than two minutes, the scene changed from a pleasant summer day in the suburbs to loud screams and sirens. In the Colorado sun, diners sitting outside the restaurant heard the sound of shotgun bullets whizzing in their ears. People in busy business districts hide behind trash cans and in the attic of restaurants.

In the end, three men lay and bleed outside the library: a beloved policeman, a gunman who intended to kill as many law enforcement officers as possible, and a nearby shopper with a legally hidden pistol, he intervened and stopped Further bloodshed.

In the five months following the June 21 shooting, the police and prosecutors released information intermittently. But after First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced on November 8 that she would not prosecute the Arvada police who shot the "Good Samaritan" Johnny Hurley, the Denver Post obtained The record provided the most complete picture of the chaos that day and how law enforcement responded.

The 1,090-page report includes interviews and accounts of dozens of law enforcement officers who responded to the scene, as well as descriptions of radio traffic and witness interviews. Although the Arvada police did not wear a body camera at the time of the shooting, the Washington Post used documents from other response agencies, surveillance video, and body camera footage to piece together the following description of the chaotic scene.

"This is definitely the most terrible thing I have been involved in in this police station in 15 years," said one of the first police officers who arrived at the scene, his name deleted from the report. "I thought I would either have to use lethal force or I would be murdered."

A witness who was a guitar teacher told investigators that he heard gunshots and saw Beasley fall. As more gunfire echoed in the square, he ran away.

The name of the witness was also deleted. He told the police: "I imagined the Old Town Square was a massacre." "I was terrified."

Ronald Troyke's brother called 911 at 12:45 pm on June 21 to request a welfare check on the residents of Arvada. The 59-year-old lonely old man had made suicidal remarks to his family earlier that morning.

Arvada police officer Gordon Beesley (Gordon Beesley) is a 19-year veteran of the department. He spent most of the year as a school resource officer. Soon after, he arrived in Troyk with another police officer. The apartment building, but they couldn't find Troyk.

There, Beasley was sent to Old Town Square, about a mile away, to investigate a report of a suspicious individual.

Surveillance video showed Beasley strolling casually in the square at 1:35 pm. The police later identified a man as Troick-the person Beasley had just tried to find-running behind him and ambushed with a shotgun He fired nine shotgun shells at the officer.

The shooting smashed the glass windows of nearby businesses, causing customers and passers-by to flee. Some particles exploded inside the company, leaving defects on the walls. Wearing a black shirt and tactical vest, Troyke fired two more shots, which blew up the windows of the nearby Arvada police car.

911 calls flooded into the Jefferson County Emergency Call Center immediately after the Troyk shot.

In a phone call, a man near the So Radish restaurant reported to a police officer. According to the call summary, during the call, the dispatcher heard gunshots and screams in the background. She asked the caller if he was in a safe place.

"No," he replied, his voice trembling.

After the first shot, three members of the Arvada Police Department’s Community Outreach Resources and Law Enforcement Team huddled around their unmarked office building door window, about 100 feet from where Beasley lay.

They saw a man in black, wearing an "old-fashioned ski mask" and a soft hat walking through the parking lot with a rifle.

Three police officers considered shooting the black man (later identified as Troyk), but they feared that if they missed it, they would be vulnerable, the officer told investigators. This man has more power than them, because he has a rifle and they have a pistol. The officers also worried that their vests and the walls of the building would not protect them or others in the shared office building from rifle bullets.

"Basically, it’s 40 yards wide from where we are to where he is, without cover, so, you know, I started opening the door because I wanted to face them, but I thought,'If I missed us (expletive ),'" One of the police officers, Sterling Boom, told investigators. "So I hesitated a bit there."

When Troick walked out of sight, Michael Hall, the other of the three police officers, ran to the office upstairs to find a better angle, broke into a woman's Zoom phone, and ordered her to lie on the ground. He was worried that the gunmen would shoot people in the busy town square, hoping to stop the gunmen before he entered the square.

But Troick never appeared in his vision again. After firing at the police car, Troyk returned to his truck and replaced his shotgun with another gun, which the authorities later described as an "AR-15 black carbine rifle."

However, he never fired that rifle. Johnny Hurley, a shopper with Army and Navy surplus nearby, heard gunfire from inside the store. The surveillance camera caught 40-year-old Hurley rushing out of the store, took a gun from his belt, steadily crossed the town square, and ran towards the noisy place.

When Troick walked back to the town square, Hurley peeked at a brick retaining wall. At 1:36 pm, Hurley fired six bullets from his pistol with a concealed carry permit, killing Troyk.

Video from a surveillance camera in the CORE team office showed that Hurley paused for a few seconds, then moved in the direction of his fire, picked up something from the ground and performed an operation. A tree blocked the camera's view of Troyke's body and Hurley's lower body.

Through the doors and windows of the CORE office building, Arvada Police Officer Kraig Brownlow heard more gunshots. After a while, he saw a man in red, who was later identified as Hurley, holding a rifle into the field of vision— -Later recognized as an AR-15 by the police as Tryoke-and a pistol.

Brownlow told investigators within a few days of the shooting that he believed the man was reloading the rifle. He considered yelling at the man in red, but worried that it would undermine his advantage.

"I realized that if I yelled at him, he would either run to the square or use this rifle to shoot at me. The pistol vs. rifle contest was unfair," Brownlow told investigators, according to a report. A transcript of the interview.

40 seconds after Hurley shot Troyk, Brownlow fired three shots at Hurley and hit him once.

That afternoon, after Troick fired the first bullet, Hurley fell to the ground approximately 1:44.

It was not until Brownlow shot Hurley, about a minute later, that the core personnel walked out of their building, and they saw the bodies of Troick and Beasley, with their crooked and damaged badges placed next to him.

Brownlow later recalled to investigators that when the initial call about the suspicious person came via radio, he told the other members of the core team that they should answer it, but Beasley said he was already there.

"I think I was killed in some universe today," Hall said in an interview with investigators.

As the first panicked 911 call rang, dozens of police officers from Arvada and nearby jurisdictions rushed to the scene. Information changes every minute. Several military officers wrote in their accounts that preliminary radio reports indicated that in addition to Hurley and Troyk, there may be another armed person.

"When I arrived, there was chaos on the radio, and it is still uncertain whether there is a suspect at large," an Arvada police officer wrote in the report.

Less than two minutes after Brownlow shot Hurley, the first group of officers to arrive formed a group and approached Hurley and Troick who were lying on the ground.

The body camera footage showed that the police officer yelled at these people and asked them to show their hands. According to the official report, neither of them responded, and they quickly determined that Troyk was dead.

However, Hurley was still breathing, even though he barely moved.

Body camera footage showed that a group of police officers approached Hurley for the first time around 1:41 pm-four minutes after he was shot. The video showed a police officer taking out a rifle from his vicinity.

When a doctor from the Jefferson County SWAT team arrived, the officer checked Hurley for more weapons and handcuffed him. At 1:44 pm, the police transferred Hurley to the doctor's SUV, and the doctor began to provide assistance. He wrapped a bandage on the blood-free bullet wound on Hurley's lower back and began to use an oxygen bag on him. Then the police carried him on a stretcher to a car parked on Aldworth Avenue and West 57th Avenue. On the ambulance.

The doctor told investigators that Hurley gave him at least one breath during his care, but this may have been an extremely fast breath—reflex gasps that occur when the brain is not getting enough oxygen.

"What this person needs is a trauma surgeon to find out where he is bleeding," the doctor told investigators, and his name was deleted from the report.

A deputy in the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that his body camera should automatically turn on when he left the vehicle, but it did not turn on the day he took care of Hurley.

Respondents were not sure how many gunmen were involved, and they pointed their gun at a non-participating witness near the shooting scene. The man walked past Troick a few seconds before Troick killed Beasley, and hid behind a car parked in the alley after the gunfire broke out.

After clearing the scene, the police began to inspect nearby businesses. They quickly crossed the streets of Old Town, empty except for the police and their cars.

By 1:48 pm-12 minutes after the first shot was fired-law enforcement had completely occupied the area. Dispatching via radio: no more units are needed.

After a bomb sniffer at the Denver Police Department warned that Troyke's truck might contain explosives or ammunition, the second wave of fear began. All police retreated from the area until the bomb disposal team could respond. Although investigators did find more than 100 rounds of ammunition, no explosives were found in the vehicle.

Troyke's family called the dispatcher again at 3:18 pm to find out the latest status of their earlier welfare check calls. The officials then responded to Troick’s apartment again, although they had not yet realized that it belonged to the gunman who had just killed Beasley. Once there, they met two neighbors of Troyk.

The police asked the neighbors if they knew the person living in apartment 306. They said they didn't know him well, but they just saw his truck in the news, which was related to the shooting in Old Town.

The Jefferson County SWAT team was called to evacuate the building so that the police could enter the Troyk apartment. A team broke the front door with explosives, and investigators found a sparse home equipped with cribs, recliners, folding tables and TVs. Except for the greeting cards sent by the Troyk family who cares about his mental health, the police officers hardly found any personal belongings.

Troyke's handwritten notes on the wall support the hatred of the police and the desire to kill as many people as possible. Troyke's brother later told law enforcement that Troyke had no friends, no job, and was “distorted” by watching countless hours of YouTube videos about police misconduct.

Investigators later learned that on June 7, Troyke yelled at CORE team members when they arrested a man with an arrest warrant.

"If I can manipulate this place to explode, I will," Troick's note said.

In the next few days, police leaders held a press conference, and family and friends mourned Hurley and Beasley. Police leaders praised Hurley as a hero, calling him a "kind Samaritan."

Dozens of witnesses sat in the police interrogation room and explained what they saw. A woman who had lunch at one of the restaurants told the police that she would now check the nearest exits and make an escape plan in every place she went.

But even after five months, community members still have questions about June 21. At a recent town hall meeting on the shooting, District Attorney Kim answered questions about Hurley’s medical treatment and police training in Arvada.

King did not investigate Hurley's medical condition at the scene because her job was to determine whether Brownlow's shooting of Hurley was legally reasonable. An autopsy by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office revealed that Brownlow’s bullet broke Hurley’s pelvis, pierced his intestines and colon, and pierced the pelvic arteries, causing internal bleeding.

King said that apart from the surveillance video from CORE's office, her office did not know of any video showing Hurley was shot.

She said: "The angle we displayed for a video is different from the surveillance content posted. We looked up and down." "We didn't find it."

Arvada police spokesman Dave Snelling (Dave Snelling) said Brownlow was still on vacation on Tuesday, but he could return to work at any time. The Arvada police continue to conduct internal reviews of the incident that took place on June 21.

In an interview with investigators on June 24, Brownlow said that shortly after the shooting, he felt that he had successfully ended the threat and that he had completed the training he had received.

Brownlow said that in the following days, he did not see any news reports, nor did he hear any news about the shooting, so he could make an unaffected account of the incident during the interview. He still didn't know who the man in red was.

But at the scene, Brownlow heard someone mention that the man in red may be a man with a hidden weapon.

"My heart sank at that moment," he said.

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