A Denver police detective was disciplined for failure to conduct a reasonable investigation into a fatal bike crash by eliseschmelzer
Gene McCullough’s family isn’t exactly sure how he died Sept. 5 while riding his bicycle on a Denver trail.
He was a careful cyclist, they said, and would not have been moving fast enough to injure himself like that. Neither the bicycle nor the helmet had any significant damage. Since McCullough’s death, his family has felt like they had to force the department to investigate the crash. They filed a complaint with the department’s internal affairs bureau about how the family was treated, including the allegation that Grein told McCullough’s widow that he had more important things to work on. That complaint prompted an internal affairs investigation.
“Once the department was notified of the family’s concerns, DPD immediately began taking steps to rectify the situation and opened an investigation into the detective’s actions,” the department said in a statement. “It was determined that the detective’s investigation was not up to the high standards of a death investigation conducted by the Denver Police Department and he was disciplined.
A bystander who found Gene McCullough on the ground of the Lakewood Gulch Trail near West 10th Avenue and Perry Street on Sept. 5 called 911 to request an ambulance. The only possible witness to the crash was gone by the time police arrived and was never found or contacted by police.
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