Sunday Editorial: What happened on the Hill the night Todd Walker was killed : a possible defense
It’s on everybodys mind but no one wants to talk about it in writing. The Daily Camera wrote a pretty harsh inditement of the CU students behavior on the hill Friday night when Todd Walker was murdered. The Chancellor of the University of Colorado released a document laying out proper protocol when being robber: DON’T FIGHT BACK.
There are some big questions that may never be answered. Or maybe they will when the murder trial begins. Surely part of the defense will be that:
Elizabeth Roach was drunk, aggressive and itching for a fight. Todd Walker posed a huge football player threat. There was fighting in the streets. People were throwing bottles and rocks. Kevin McGregor was just trying to get away. And as he did he stumbled into Walker and Roach who didn’t like the way this working class skin head looked. They curse at him pushed him shoved him hit him. McGregor thought Walker was going to kill him so he reached into his back pants crack, pulled out a pistol and fired a warning shot. But Walker and Roach kept at him. Walker had him by the throat, So Mcgregor shot again and killed Walker. Roach let go of McGregor and McGregor ran. The riot crowd who were watching McGregor get beaten dispersed. Then McGregor came back as witness’s told Boulder Channel 1 news. But the crowd was hostile McGregor so he left not sure what to do? He really didn’t was to shoot at all. It was self defense!
You don’t think this will be the defense??? Hell it might even be true.
And what was the environment on the hill when Todd Walker was killed?? The conservative Daily Camera called it a Riot with 500 students chanting FUCK THE POLICE. Cops were getting pelted. Where were Roach and Walker in all of this?
Were they fighting. Was roach drunk and out of control. When McGregor tried to Rob them, did she not see the gun? Did she attack him? Did she keep on fighting even after McGregor fired a warning shot.? Was Walker trying to Keep Roach under control , away from McGregor so he wouldn’t shoot them. Maybe he wasn’t trying to protect her as much as to get her to cut it the fuck out. Did she get Todd Walker killed. In the end perhaps we will find this out at the trial. If there is a trial. Or was McGregor a crazed lone gunman caught up in the juice of a college drunken riot ? Was this his chance to finally use that gun he always carried. I suspect a combination of both.
Are the riots and murder connected. Did the drinking crazed student riots create the energy for this terrible murder to happen.? Is it not the college culture of drinking , disrespect and violence that led to this.? Is this not just the escalation of violence in general in our community. And now this!! A hand gun Murder!. We are all to blame for this is my take. I’d like to really know what happened up there.
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You guys got it right. What kind of I….. pulls the mask off of a gunman and calls him ” a joke after he fires a warning shot at you??
Rick
Stewart
The party was two blocks away right? Yeah, you know I have been robbed twice. The first time it was dark, I was 19 and drunk and the robber had a knife which I did not see..I started lipping off and my friend was trying to shut me up…which I did. The we gave him the money and he left……so I can see how this girl and guy might have been drunk, it was a dark street…and they were amped on violence…..Possible
Jann, what are these comments based on ? Otherwise, it’s awful conjecture, though, if you recall, I e-mailed you with a correct analysis before the news got out of the arrest, an “outsider” who was attracted to the riotous crowds, perhaps, a drug problem otherwise why a hold up? desperate move?
Any case, why carry a loaded gun?
A good case for gun control as accidents happen, as I’m sure this idiot didn’t actually want to kill someone, too late now, life without parole.
Seth,
Yeah, I can’t figure the holdup part., This guy McGregor had a job just down the street; He worked in a sandwich shop on the hill where drugs are accessible; so I don’t get the hold up..but I do get the stupid fighting back by the girl who thought she was invincible because she had a big boyfriend to protect her….Huge mistake. Jann
Sometimes, there is no need to spill your thoughts. As a person who survived a kidnap and later an unfortunate carjack where the friend next to me got shot in the head in front of me. You have no idea, cannot even begin to imagine the psychological trauma that a tragedy like that leaves on the survivor. If anything, please stop blaming this poor girl. People love the drama of a tragedy; You love making assumptions and saying them out loud no matter how much they hurt. It is all about your crazy theories
Oh so no one should ask questions because you are upset. How dare you assume I don’t know what its like. I too have been kidnapped at gunpoint and have had friends killed next to me. So I of anyone between the two of us qualify to write and question. Sorry for your pain.You shouldn’t follow this case. But be assured , what i have wriiten above will all come out as plausible theories in court.