Yesterday we reported on the tragic shooting of three sheriff’s deputies in Colorado.
Corporal Nate Carrigan, a 13-year veteran of the Park County Sheriff’s Office was killed at the scene. A second officer was wounded and remains in critical condition after sustaining life-threatening injuries. A third suffered only a minor injury with a bullet grazing his ear.
In all, according to the Daily Mail, Eight officers went to the snow-covered two-story home in a hillside neighborhood north of the town of Bailey to serve what authorities described as a ‘high-risk’ eviction notice. They were there to evict 58-year-old Martin Wirth — an Occupy activist — who was refusing to leave his home after foreclosure.
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Wirth owned the home until March 2014, when Fannie Mae, the government-controlled mortgage company, took ownership after he lost a court battle over his foreclosure. according to The Denver Post. After Wirth lost his case in state court, he sued Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, the state attorney general and a judge in 2013.