JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — Newly released internal-affairs documents show that a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office SWAT sergeant admitted to drinking “the better part” of a 12-pack of beer hours before responding to the shooting at Evergreen High School earlier this year.
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According to documents obtained by Denver7, Sgt. Anthony Hamilton first denied allegations of intoxication but later acknowledged drinking heavily the night before and again the morning of the shooting. Investigators wrote that he stopped drinking around 11 a.m. — roughly 80 minutes before 911 calls began coming in from the high school…