{"id":118168,"date":"2021-03-23T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=118168"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:46:53","slug":"lives-cut-too-short-beloved-police-officer-among-10-victims-of-boulder-colorado-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/business\/lives-cut-too-short-beloved-police-officer-among-10-victims-of-boulder-colorado-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lives ‘cut too short’: Beloved police officer among 10 victims of Boulder, Colorado, shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
BOULDER, Colorado \u2013 The\u00a010\u00a0people\u00a0gunned down\u00a0at a\u00a0supermarket in an afternoon of terror Monday ranged in age from 20 to 65 and include a police officer who raced\u00a0to the scene after\u00a0a\u00a0911 call.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities identified nine additional victims on Tuesday after identifying Boulder\u00a0Officer Eric Talley, 51, the day before.<\/p>\n
According to Boulder police, their names are:<\/p>\n
Talley was the first office to arrive at the King Soopers store and was killed during a shootout with the\u00a0gunman, Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
Talley had been with Boulder police since 2010, Herold said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was by all accounts one of the outstanding officers of the Boulder Police Department, and his life was cut too short,\u201d Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
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Eric Talley has been identified as the first officer on the scene of a mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket. He was one of 10 people killed. (Photo: AP)<\/span><\/p>\n It “didn\u2019t surprise me he was the first one there,” Homer Talley, the officer’s father,\u00a0told KUSA-TV.<\/p>\n Talley\u00a0had seven children of his own, ranging in ages from 20 to 7, his father told KUSA-TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe had a great sense of humor, he was a prankster,\u201d Homer Talley said. \u201cHe loved his family more than anything.”<\/p>\n Talley was one of three officers who helped save a group of ducklings that had been trapped in a drainage ditch, according to a 2013 article from the Boulder Daily Camera,\u00a0<\/p>\n Talley “waded into the calf-deep water to try and round up the ducks himself,” the article said. “He was drenched after this,\u201d Boulder police Sgt. Jack Walker told the newspaper. \u201cThey would go into these little pipes and he would have to try and fish them out.\u201d<\/p>\n