Air Force Academy employee suspected in deadly Colorado shooting

DENVER — A lady and a sheriff’s deputy have been fatally shot at a house in southern Colorado over the weekend and the suspected gunman, an worker on the Air Drive Academy, was later discovered lifeless inside the house, authorities stated Monday.

El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Peery, 39, was wounded Sunday after he arrived with two different legislation enforcement officers to analyze a report of a taking pictures on the residence in the neighborhood of Safety-Widefield close to Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs police stated in an announcement.

John Paz, 33, fired on the officers, hitting Peery, and one other sheriff’s deputy returned hearth, police stated.

Officers discovered the physique of the lady within the residence’s entrance yard, police stated. Paz died of an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound, police added.

Paz labored on the Air Drive Academy’s airfield within the 94th Flying Coaching Squadron, which conducts glider coaching for cadets. He had been an aviation useful resource administration technician there since December, college spokesperson Dean J. Miller stated.

“Our condolences exit to all of the family and friends affected by Sunday’s incident,” Miller stated.

Colorado Springs police, who’re investigating the taking pictures, imagine Paz additionally killed the lady. Her connection to Paz was nonetheless being investigated, spokesperson Jason Newton stated.

Individuals lined up on Sunday to honor Peery as a hearse carrying his stays drove from a hospital to the coroner’s workplace.

Gov. Jared Polis additionally expressed sympathy to the household of Peery, who was a adorned member of the sheriff’s division’s SWAT workforce.

“My ideas and condolences are with the household and mates of Deputy Peery and all our neighbors in legislation enforcement who put their lives in danger to serve others,” he stated.