Colorado probe shows man shot at prosecutor's home was random intruder
Source: Reuters
An intruder shot to death at the home of a Colorado prosecutor amid a recent flurry of ambush killings of law enforcement officials turned out to be a random prowler who was high on drugs and claiming to be an "archangel of Jesus," authorities said on Thursday.
A special prosecutor's review of the April 1 shooting concluded that Grand County Deputy District Attorney Heather Stein and her husband, sheriff's Lieutenant John Stein, acted in self-defense when they fired on the stranger, later identified as 32-year-old Joshua Stevens.
The incident in Hot Sulphur Springs, 95 miles northwest of Denver, occurred two weeks after the head of the Colorado prison system was gunned down at his home, and two days after the district attorney of Kaufman County in Texas was found shot to death with his wife.
Another Kaufman County prosecutor had been murdered in January, and a West Virginia sheriff was slain while eating lunch in his patrol car two days after the intrusion at the Steins' home.
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