Sam Peña is a multimedia journalist at Denver7 KMGH in Denver, Colorado.
ARVADA, Colo. — Three years have passed since a Good Samaritan who had just killed an active shooter in Olde Town Arvada was mistakenly identified as the suspect and fatally shot by a police officer.
On that afternoon, Arvada Officer Gordon Beesley responded to a call about a suspicious incident near the Arvada Library in Olde Town. About 15 minutes later, the department received calls reporting shots fired and that an officer had been hit. Police later learned that the shooter, a 59-year-old from Arvada, had shot and killed Beesley. Hurley, who was at a nearby store, heard the shooting and ran toward the danger. He had his firearm on him, and opened fire on the shooter.
“Knowing that he was a hero gives me comfort," she said Friday. “I cling to the fact that I can be so proud... I was lucky to have been his mother.”This year, Hurley's friends performed songs and read poems about his final moments. Church bells rang out at the time he was killed, and the crowd honored a moment of silence.
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