Police killings
2013-2020

Joe Gorden

Male, White

Date of the incident: 3/19/2014

Aurora, Adams, CO
East 16th Avenue and North Quentin Street

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.