WEEK OF FEBRUARY 20, 2025
VOLUME 53 | ISSUE 37
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Former Clear Creek Sheriff deputy Andrew Buen outside court Feb. 10.
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Jury watches graphic body camera video when Christian Glass was shot to death Former Clear Creek Sheriff deputy recorded interaction with Glass night he was killed BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A Clear Creek County jury made up of six women and nine men witnessed what former deputy Andrew Buen saw, said and did in events leading up to him firing five shots through the windshield of Christian Glass’s vehicle, killing him. The jury watched Buen’s own body-worn camera from the time he turned it on, arriving on-scene, to when he stopped
recording as he was taken to the Clear Creek Sheriff ’s office for an “after action” interview with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Buen’s body cam recording includes a “timecode” displaying the exact time of every interaction between the six other law enforcement officers onscene, from Buen’s point-of-view, leading up to him firing the fatal shots that killed Glass. The incident started on the night of June 10, 2022 when
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Buen and his on-duty partner, deputy Tim Collins in a separate vehicle, received a call for a service at 11:23 p.m. for a stranded motorist. Clear Creek dispatcher Paige Kincaid informed the deputies that the caller, Glass, reported being stuck on a rock that he’d inadvertently crashed into in Silver Plume and needed assistance, according to testimony. En route to the call Kincaid relayed information to Buen and Collins that Glass was describing a “a spiritual awakening” he just experienced after returning from Moab, Utah where he was collecting rocks. Kincaid also transmitted that
Glass seemed “paranoid” and that he “wasn’t making much sense,” according to testimony. Glass told Kincaid he had two knives in the vehicle in addition to a hammer and rubber mallet, which he indicated he would throw out of the vehicle when officers arrived. Evidence showed the Glass did not throw the items out of the vehicle. Shortly after Buen and Collins made initial contact with Glass, five additional officers arrived on-scene including: Colorado Division of Gaming Enforcement Investigators Mary
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