The family of a carjacking suspect, who Aurora officers shot and killed last month after police said he pointed what turned out to be an airsoft gun at them, held a candlelight vigil Saturday night, calling for justice.
“We’re bringing awareness to this situation because it is a problem in Aurora. It has been a problem for a very long time,” Erica Dillard said.
Kory Dillard, a 37-year-old Army veteran, was shot and killed on Oct. 3 in a neighborhood west of S. Peoria Street and E. Colfax Avenue.
Anna Harris The Aurora Police Department said witnesses called 911 after they reported a violent carjacking by a suspect armed with an assault-style rifle.
“They stated, please drop the weapon, drop the weapon. The suspect’s response to this de-escalation in this verbal command was to raise the weapon toward the officers,” Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said during an Oct. 7 press conference.
Chamberlain revealed that day that the weapon was a realistic-looking airsoft gun.
Aurora Police Department