AURORA | Police have dropped a disorderly conduct charge against a man arrested after a person in the car with him Monday attacked an officer before stealing a police cruiser and being killed by police.
Police said in a statement that they dropped the charge against Garnett Lee Hubbard, 24, so they could further investigate his involvement in Monday’s incident.
“This dismissal does not prevent charges being brought against Hubbard in the future, if appropriate,” the statement read.
The Arapahoe County coroner’s office has not released the name of the man killed by police, and police have not released the name of the officer who was hurt.
According to state records, Hubbard, who also goes by the name Garrett Hubbard and the nicknames “Grim” and “Giggles,” has been arrested several times on charges including burglary and assault. Before Monday’s arrest, his most-recent arrest in Colorado came in 2010 when he was arrested on felony trespassing and contempt of court charges.
Monday’s incident started around 3:45 a.m. when an officer stopped what he thought was a stalled car on an exit ramp from I-225 to Alameda. Police said after the officer spoke to the driver of the Honda Civic, someone in the car climbed out and attacked the officer while the officer was walking back to his patrol unit.
The man sliced the officer’s head, police said. The officer is expected to survive his injuries and police said he fired one shot at the man before the man fled in the police cruiser.
Despite his injuries, the officer was able to give other officers a description of where the attacker went, police said. Hubbard was detained at the off ramp, police said.
Other officers chased the stolen police cruiser east on Alameda and the chase reached speeds of about 65 mph, police said. An officer eventually caught up to the stolen cruiser near East Kentucky Avenue and rammed it, causing it to come to a stop. Officers confronted the man, who police said had a dark object in his hand, and when the man refused to comply with officers’ demands they shot him.
Police said they aren’t sure why the man attacked the officer.
Aurora PD dropped a charge against Hubbard hoping his testimony would shed light on the deceased suspect and his motives. Local governments are up against a societal backlash where families of criminals along with their lawyers are looking for a jackpot if there is even an ounce of malfeasance on the part of police. Juries are more likely to hand out ridiculously high awards without the realization that they themselves are part of the societal collective who will have to pay the monetary award through higher taxes or reduced services.
Joe, your entry made no sense at all! you are trying too hard to sound like an academic that it only confuses…
I can’t help it that you’re a simpleton.
Not too sure of that, Bronson. I agree with Joe on this issue. Note the high funds paid out for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and BLM bring the President, DOJ in the assignment of FBI agents to find police civil rights violations, with some 60 plus police departments, Sherif Ariapo in Airizona not allowed to let his deputy sheriffs, stop or arrest illegal aliens, even when everyone knows who they are. BLM has found a bigger payoff by being able to topple Mayors, Commissioners, Police Leadership all over this country. When they weed out and fire the police who are brave enough to shoot, and others quit, resign, quit arresting, WHO WILL THEY REPLACE THOSE WITH?
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I don’t envision many military coming back from service, now rushing to get into police academies to put on the blue uniform. I asked to train for Air Police in 1950, and the MSgt counselor, said, “Private, you have a brain, use it”. Another young guy like me in basic had seen two whole flights (72 each) go to next assignment for on the job training, and thought if we volunteered, we could get technical training, then go to assignment knowing something about what we would do. But counselor saw more for me, than that, and led to 26 years 18 days of much more demanding missions, projects, and supervision than I would ever have achieved in police work. Police work is important, probably more important than we give credit for. But they are who we call, when we have criminal problem effecting us or family. And society is much safer, when police do their job, and have backing of their leaders. I don’t see that now with police leaders so quick to kow tow to the screamers, and allow the civil disorder to disrupt traffic, place others in danger, and THROW THIER POLICE UNDER THE BUS. (ADDED NOTE: ALL THOSE I NAMED WHO DIED IN FIRST PARAGRAPH, WERE CRIMINALS, AND DOING CRIMINAL ACT WHEN KILLED. And that goes for the young guy in Chicago, walking (skipping) high on drugs, down middle of what should have been busy thoroughfare. That knife I saw in video was not folded, and it was definitely longer than 3 inches, as seen on video. Within 10 – 12 feet, whether advancing or going away, in same position as policeman and others, he should have been shot. Or netted as the out of his head, angry young black that he was. White, brown, green, striped, he was dangerous with that knife at the short distance).