Joseph Oliver Gorden

How they died

Suicide

Officers from the University of Colorado Denver Police Department were initially sent to a parking garage on the campus on a report of a suicidal man. When they found Gorden, he drove off. CU Denver police officers followed him, pulling him over at 16th Avenue and Quentin Street, and that's when shots were fired, hitting the man. He was taken to the emergency department at the University of Colorado Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Joseph Oliver Gorden, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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