On the morning of February 22, 2006, 30-year-old Colorado Springs Police Detective Jared Scott Jensen was working undercover as part of a search for a man wanted in a recent stabbing. Around 10:45 a.m., near Costilla Street and Hancock Avenue, Jensen spotted the suspect after he exited a 7-Eleven and radioed dispatch that he was making contact. Witnesses said Jensen approached with handcuffs ready when the suspect produced a handgun and shot the detective in the head; the suspect fired again as Jensen fell. Citizens began calling 911 within minutes.

Officers found Jensen with critical gunshot wounds and he was taken to Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:10 p.m. The shooting triggered a large manhunt that shut down much of central Colorado Springs; FBI and ATF agents apprehended the suspect about an hour and a half later in the Fountain Creek bed roughly a mile and a half from the scene. The suspect, Jereme Lamberth, was charged with Jensen’s murder and later convicted of second-degree murder. A judge subsequently declared Lamberth a habitual criminal and sentenced him to 96 years in prison for Detective Jensen’s death.

Did anyone in the area that morning notice behavior or vehicles that might shed more light on the encounter near the 7-Eleven?