Around 10:44 a.m. on April 20, a 911 call was received by Boulder County Communications related to someone believed to be suffering a suspected mental health crisis in the area of Ridge Road near Nederland. Deputies were driving up the caller’s driveway by 11:04 a.m. to find a male holding a firearm against his head.
Deputies then heard a shot fired in an unknown direction, and upon seeing the man still holding the gun to his head, a deputy issued the command to lower the weapon around 11:05 a.m. Seconds later, the man shot himself, soon pronounced deceased at the scene.
It was later revealed that the man who had shot himself was New York Times best-selling author David Wilcock, 53 and originally of Schenectady, New York and a Colorado resident since 2017. At the request of Wilcock’s family, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office included additional information about his life and what led to his death in a press release on the matter. It is the family’s hope that his death “encourages more focused attention to mental health care access.”…