UPDATE: Just a bit more about Officer Swasey, from The Gazette, which is the Colorado Springs Pullitzer Prize winning newspaper: “Swasey grew up in Massachusetts and competed with partner Rachel Mayer with The Skating Club of Boston in the Eastern Sectional Championships. He and Fowler, a Baltimore native living in the Springs in the early 1990s, won the junior dance competition by winning both the original and free dance programs. He and Hillary Tompkins, finished 13th in the 1995 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and later performed in ice shows in northern Maine.
Garrett Swasey was an elder in Hope Chapel, a northeast Colorado Springs church, overseeing its three Care Groups and participating in its teaching team and playing guitar as part of its worship team.
Swasey is survived by his wife, Rachel; a son, Elijah, and a daughter, Faith.It appears that Officer Swasey responded to a call that another officer was in trouble at the site where a shooter named Robert Lewis Deer began shooting unarmed persons.
Rest in Peace Officer Swasey. You name will be held in honor. May all near and far be comforted in every way possible.