An Estes Park police officer was found dead in his home Thursday night, hours after authorities opened an investigation into allegations of domestic violence involving that officer, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Chief Wes Kufeld of the Estes Park Police Department notified the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office at 2:30 p.m. Thursday about an alleged “domestic violence situation” involving one of the department’s current officers that occurred Sept. 17, the sheriff’s office said.
The Eighth Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team was activated to investigate the matter, with the Larimer sheriff’s office taking the lead. Authorities say they interviewed family members of the officer on Thursday afternoon.
Investigators received information that the involved officer was at his residence with two other family members, sheriff’s officials said
According to the news release, investigators made several attempts to contact the officer without success, but eventually the two family members were removed from the residence safely.
When the Larimer County sheriff’s crisis response team and the Boulder County sheriff’s SWAT team served a warrant to search the officer’s home at 9:15 p.m. Thursday, they found the officer dead inside.
The Larimer County Coroner’s Office has yet to release the officer’s name or the cause of death.
The investigation into the Sept. 17 incident will continue, sheriff’s officials said.
