Good afternoon and Aurora police
officer driving more than
100 mph, music playing,
one hand on the wheel and then
a deadly crash. Kevin Vaughn,
from our nine months to No team,
has a look at footage of a wreck that killed
a man. Now the officer is
facing felony charges.
Before we do show it to you,
we want to give you a warning though.
The video does capture the crash
from inside the police car.
The aftermath was horrific.
It was March 4th on Chambers Rd.
In East Bates Ave.
An Aurora police officer racing
to a nonemergency call smashed
into a Toyota, killing a man.
That officer, Eduardo Landeros,
resigned during the internal
investigation and now faces
two felonies just released.
Body camera footage takes us inside his
car in the moments leading up to the crash.
40 seconds before the collision,
leaving a stoplight,
with music playing
25 seconds before the crash,
accelerating hard, one hand on the wheel,
no emergency lights,
no siren and no seat belt.
4 seconds before the wreck,
reaching for a touchscreen comp.
Then disaster.
222,
I just got hit in the accident. I'm down to
22. Confirm you were hitting your vehicle?
Yes. My car flipped over. Ambulance, please.
Alas, Anderson was the man in that Toyota.
He died in this crash.
The former officer is charged wh
vehicular homicide, reckless drg
and criminally negligent homici.
He's free after posting a $5000l
and he's to back in court July .
Tom, Kevin,
We talked about it all the time.
These body cameras and some
of the cruiser car cameras
that that bring these events
straight into our living rooms,
they're hard to watch.
They're important too.
They have brought a level of
accountability to police work
that we never previously knew.
Now we see exactly what
happened in many of these cases.
All right, Kevin, thank you.
Clear Creek County commissioner say they
haven't heard back yet from the County
Sheriff nearly two weeks after calling
him out in a joint statement over the
handling of the Christian Glass case.
Commissioner said back on June .
They don't feel that the sherifs
accepted adequate responsibility for his
department's role in the shooting of Glass.
They also said they don't beliee
he's moved quickly enough to mae
sure changes prevent another shooting
to Clear Creek County commissio.
We spoke to Shop Stop Short of
calling for the sheriff's resignation,
but said he has a long way to
go to earn back trust.
And we don't feel that the
leadership of the Sheriff's Offe
is taking enough accountability
and taking enough aggressive and
proactive steps to make it happ.
Do you have faith?
That change happens.
If I had faith that it would
just happen on its own,
that faith would have been justd
over the last year and we would
not have issued that statement.
And we have reached out to
Sheriff Albers office to request
an interview multiple times.
We haven't heard back.
Hopefully it got outside today
because there you see a live lok
at Elitches and everybody's over
there trying to cool off today.
Denver enjoying its warmest day of the year.
I was just going over some of my notes,
Kathy, I believe.
I believe we haven't been this m
since September 28th of last ye.
You're correct.
Yeah. Written down. No, I just.
I have something special that day. No,
I just. I remember September 28th, very warm.
And then it was cool until toda.
You know, Kathy, the great thing
about this is everyone was
whining and complaining about
how cool and wet our June was.
And now that it's warm,
people are whining and
complaining that it's too warm.
Isn't that funny how that happe?
Yeah, I know. But did you notic,
like when you woke up today and the sky
was blue in the sun was. I don't know.
I just felt better today. Did you? Yeah.
It's just, you know now holiday for many
people. It was a Monday.
I know, but it's like a mood booster.
But that's OK. Yeah.
And we got we got a solstice
coming our way this week.
We do, we do and this year the
parties at your house, Tom,
So make sure you're adequately supplied
for when we stop over there on Wednesday.
That's right. The summer solstie
on Wednesday morning at 8:57 AM.
So the last few days of spring
actually feeling like summer,
we have 91 degrees in downtown Denver,
upper 80s out at the airport.
We're still waiting to see
if this will be the official.
1st 90 degree day of the season.
We're kind of dealing on the edge there,
but we're just enjoying the beautiful view.
Boulder, Fort Collins, blue ski,
everything's so green,
flowers are popping up and we he
87 currently at DIA, 92 in Lama,
91 in Greeley.
And temperatures have really not
been this warm in quite some ti.
Winds in northeastern Colorado
are coming in out of the southet
over the elevated terrain out of
the southwest in advance of a cl
front that's prompted some wind
advisories around Salt Lake City
and up toward the Boise area.
We are just high and dry here in Colorado.
A quiet afternoon of weather hee
and as we move through the even.
Fair skies, light winds tomorro,
high clouds coming in, but another warm,
dry day late tomorrow night.
Extreme northeastern Colorado mt
be a couple of storms for you i.
Sterling Ogallala out that way.
Denver is calm and dry for at least 48 hours.
We are in the low 90s now,
dropping into the 80s after sunset coming up.
How about this? Warm, dry into spring?
Summer weather to start the wee,
but maybe not to end it.
I've got storms back in the forecast.
There's a cool front on the way.
So we're going to break the timg
down and have all of that for y.
And again, summer solstice on Wednesday,
Summer is days away.
Today, for the first time,
we're hearing from the mother of a man
killed after a standoff with po.
Kimberly Mitchell says police killed her son,
Matthew Mitchell,
when he was only trying to help.
It happened after a standoff last July.
Police responded to a home in Englewood.
Kimberly had called police for p
with her other son, Phillip Blankenship.
She said that Phillip was drunk,
had shot a gun inside the
house and was suicidal.
Phillip is accused of shooting m
inside the house toward officer,
who then returned fire into the home.
It was Matthew,
the son who was trying to help,
who was found,
shot and killed his brother.
Phillip told police he was the y
shooter in the house and that hs
brother had never fired at poli.
Friday,
we learned the District
Attorney had cleared the
officers of criminal charges.
How
is this justified? This is this
is murder. This is murder.
This was an innocent person just
trying to do the right thing that day.
Trying to help his brother,
the District Attorney said the officers
both feared for their lives and ruled
that the shooting was justified.
We're going to hear more from
Kimberly Mitchell tonight on
how she's lost trust in police.
That's at 6:00 tonight on
next with Kyle Clark.
Colorado is going to start
cracking down on drivers who Dr.
Recklessly and Express lanes
along I-70 in the mountains.
Starting this Wednesday,
drivers will get warnings for
committing violations like driving in
the express lanes when they're closed.
Weaving across solid yellow
lines and driving in the lanes
with an oversized vehicle.
One month later, July 21st,
those warnings will turn into fine C,
dot says violators will be identified
using new advanced technology
to identify those vehicles.
Colorado is the first state in e
nation to use this technology.
Today is June 19th,
better known as Juneteenth,
and people across the country
are celebrating the day in
1865 when slaves in Texas
finally learned they were free.
Juneteenth also honors the continuing
movement for racial and
social justice in the US.
President Biden recognized it as
a federal holiday two years ago,
and it became a state holiday
in Colorado last year.
Over the weekend, Five Points hd
its annual Juneteenth parade,
which organizers say is the cits
longest running parade in Denve.
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