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Anthony Chavez
Gender : Male
Age :
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 09/13/2023
Location : 5800 block of Federal Blvd
City : Denver
County : Denver
State : Colorado
Agency : Denver PD
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Vehicle
Event : Killed by police cruiser under disputed circumstances
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Anthony Chavez was an unhoused man who lived at a nearby encampment and according to the police narrative, he was standing in the roadway and hit and killed by an Adams County deputy cruiser.
The family strongly disputes this narrative and states that he had actually been in the median when inexplicably, the deputy killed him. His siblings were able to view the surveillance video from a nearby business that confirmed this.
The Sheriff’s Office seemed to vaguely backpedal on their initial claims that he had been in the middle of the roadway when killed, changing it to "The individual appears to be in the roadway several minutes prior to the collision." The family is having to fight for their rights to see the evidence and get a truthful narrative out of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office what killed their brother.
