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26 October
8:01 pm

Two weeks after I got elected, before I was inaugurated, we had a 15-year-old Paul Childs who was gunned down in his own front hall by an under-trained Denver police officer.

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John Hickenlooper, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (Colorado Sun)

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Why we checked itSpecific named incident with a victim's name, age, and circumstances — verifiable against historical records of the Paul Childs shooting in Denver.
What we foundPaul Childs, 15, was shot and killed by a Denver police officer at his home on July 5, 2003, after Hickenlooper won the June runoff and before he took office that month. That was about a month after the election rather than two weeks, a detail that doesn't change the point.
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