Scott Montgomery is a name some of you might recognize, if you used to read this journal back when it was on Diary-X years and years ago. He was my ex-boyfriend’s best friend, and he moved up to COS with me and J when we left Dallas. He turned on me because I called him out on being hypocritical about something, and from then on I received a variety of nastygrams from him, some of which I posted to the journal because they were over-the-top in his attempts to be cruel. I remember in particular the one that mocked me for having a hysterectomy in 2002, and telling me it was what I deserved and that he’d have a happy perfect life in the mountains with his family.

That’s not exactly how it worked out. (Trigger warning.)

Full article beneath the cut.


Man killed by deputies faced foreclosure
Mom had asked authorities to check on 2-, 5-year-olds
June 22, 2008 - 7:48PM
BY RICH LADEN and R. SCOTT RAPPOLD
THE GAZETTE

Scott Montgomery’s marriage was struggling amidst allegations of domestic violence. He was facing foreclosure on the home he bought outside Manitou Springs not a year before.

But nobody could have been prepared for what happened behind the gates of the Crystal Park community Sunday afternoon.

El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies, called to the home on Waterfall Loop by Montgomery’s estranged wife, found 5-year-old Skyler and 2-year-old Canyon lying on a bed, injured and not breathing. Deputies then shot Montgomery, 37, to death when he accosted them with a weapon, according to the sheriff’s office.

The deaths of two young children, at the apparent hands of their father, had many in the foothills neighborhood grieving today.

“We are just so shocked,” said neighbor Virginia Ownbey.

“It’s a hard time. It’s a quiet neighborhood. We very seldom have trouble or need for the police to come up here,” said a close neighbor, who would not give his name because he had given a statement to deputies.

The two brothers were found dead Sunday by two deputies who arrived about 4:45 p.m. and who peered through a window, said El Paso County Sheriff ’s Lt. Lari Sevene.

Deputies saw blood in the bedroom, but Sevene said she couldn’t say what caused their injuries or how long the children had been there. They were dead at the scene when deputies arrived, she said.

The two deputies called for back-up at 4:55 p.m. and, a minute later forced their way into the house.

They were confronted in a bedroom by the children’s father, who had a weapon, Sevene said.

She declined to say what type of weapon.

As a confrontation ensued, one of the two deputies fired an unknown number of shots and killed the man at about 5 p.m., Sevene said.

The slayings took place in the 6200 block of Waterfall Loop in the unincorporated Crystal Park community. The area boasts large-lot homes on twisting mountain roads that climb above Manitou Springs and where residents enjoy scenic mountain and city views.

The children’s deaths were the first slayings of the year handled by the El Paso County’s Sheriff’s Office. On Sunday, Colorado Springs recorded its 13th homicide when a man died in a bar shooting.

Preliminary indications are that the father killed the children, although sheriff ’s deputies were continuing to investigate today, Sevene said

A second investigation into the deputy-involved shooting is being conducted by investigators from the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which is done whenever a peace officer is involved in a shooting.

The children’s mother called 911 at 3:48 p.m. Sunday after the father made “threatening statements,” Sevene said.

No other parties were involved in the shooting, Sevene said.