An Arvada man who was fatally shot during a home invasion robbery was identified today by police.
Michael Scott Walker, 34, was shot just before 10 p.m. Monday in his home in the 4800 block of West 60th Avenue, Arvada police said.
Two suspects who fled the shooting remain at large.
Walker, who was know as “SK,” was taken to a local hospital where he died Monday night.
The home where the shooting occurred, a two-story duplex, in 2009 and 2010 housed a marijuana dispensary called Special Kinds; the business was operating illegally and was shut down by the city.
“That location was never a legal medical marijuana dispensary in the city,” said Susan Medina, a city spokeswoman. “They were issued a cease-and-desist order in July of 2010 for operating a business in a residentially zoned area.”
Special Kinds also violated a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries that was in effect, Medina said.
Special Kinds was advertised on a number of medical marijuana listing websites, which included the West 60th Avenue address. The dispensary’s website said the pot shop was shut down July 29, 2010, by the City of Arvada.
Business records with the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office show that Special Kinds was “dissolved” in 2010. Walker was listed in incorporation records and used the home address as the principal business address.
Despite the closure on paper, neighbors, who did not want to be identified, said people still often came and went from the home and there was frequently a neon “open” sign visible in the front window.
A sign in front of the home Monday morning read, “This property is monitored by 24-hour video surveillance.”
Police have not released information on calls of service to the home. Investigators have also not released any information on a motive in the home invasion and what, if anything, was stolen.
Walker, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records, was convicted in 2003 of possession of a controlled substance, and possession of a weapon by a previous offender. That case, resulting from a Westminster arrest in 1999, included a charge of possession of 8 ounces or more of marijuana, but it was dismissed by Adams County prosecutors. Walker was sentenced up to 6 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections on the controlled substance conviction.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
