Lakewood police officer Ashley Ferris shoot kill gun man who killed 5 Lyndon McLeod shooting death

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Lakewood, Colorado – On December 27, 2021, a traffic camera (not body cam) at the intersection of Vance Street and Alaska Drive in the Belmar shopping center shows Lakewood police Officer Ashley Ferris exchanging gunfire with Lyndon McLeod, 47. McLeod went on a shooting spree in which five people were killed after a he attacked multiple tattoo parlors and other locations in Denver and Lakewood. McLeod first shot Alicia Cardenas and Alyssa Gunn Maldonado at the Denver tattoo shop Cardenas owned on Broadway before killing Michael Swinyard in his apartment near Cheesman Park. McLeod then drove to Lakewood and killed Danny Scofield in the tattoo parlor where he worked before eluding Lakewood officers and walking into a restaurant in the Belmar shopping area and threatening a bartender. After leaving the restaurant, he walked into the Hyatt hotel and killed 28-year-old Sarah Steck. McLeod targeted the hotel simply because its staff previously had refused to let him use a gift card to pay for a room. Steck wasn’t even supposed to work that night. She was covering the Dec. 27 shift for a sick co-worker when McLeod walked in and shot her. He was inside the Hyatt House hotel in the Belmar shopping district for less than 30 seconds. McLeod approached Ferris while she set up a perimeter in the Belmar shopping area. He wore a black vest with “POLICE” written across it and Ferris at first thought he was security from a nearby business. Surveillance video of the shooting shows Ferris standing outside her police car, which is blocking the intersection at Vance Street and Alaska Drive, when McLeod approaches. The two stand face-to-face in the intersection for about 10 seconds. Ferris appears to reach for something in the McLeod’s hands and then draws her gun and starts to back away. McLeod pauses for four seconds and then turns and fires, striking Ferris. She falls and fires multiple shots. The gunman turns to run, stumbles and collapses behind her patrol car. McLeod was an angry, vengeful person who failed to keep friendships and relationships, according to descriptions of interviews with his former girlfriends. One former girlfriend told investigators that he abused her and stole from her. He had not had a job in at least seven years, she said, and instead mooched off of others. He repeatedly made comments about hurting or killing people he thought had wronged him. McLeod shot Ferris in the abdomen and the bullet fractured before exiting her back, damaging her sciatic nerve and leaving her temporarily paralyzed in her right leg. Investigators found two sets of handcuffs, multiple weapons and at least 400 rounds of ammunition in McLeod’s van. Investigators later learned McLeod was the author of three racist and misogynistic books that described similar killings and named some of his eventual victims. A German man warned the FBI and Denver police a year before the shootings that McLeod posed a violent threat, but Denver police were not able to contact McLeod at the time or substantiate the threat.