Police killings
2013-2020

Esmond Drauvon Trimble

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 1/15/2019

Aurora, Arapahoe, CO
1473 S Kenton St

Aurora police responded to a home around 2 a.m. after a person in the home called 911 to report that a man inside the residence was armed with a firearm and "acting erratically," police said. When officers arrived, they reported hearing gunfire before being confronted by an armed man who shot at them. The man was shot and killed. No officers were hurt. Two men, Esmond Trimble, 42, and Dean Heerdt, 58, were dead. Trimble was the man shot outside the house, and he had allegedly shot his father-in-law inside the house.