Share and speak up for justice, law & order... COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Two young girls from Colorado were devastated over the tragic loss of Arvada Police Officer Gordon Beesley. So they turned their sorrow in something constructive by creating a lemonade stand in order to raise funds for the officer’s grieving family. Beesley, a 19-year veteran of the Arvada Police Department, was shot and killed on June 21 by a suspect who “expressed a hatred for police,” Law Officer reported. He left behind a wife and two children. The tragic news reverberated throughout the community, including Scarlet Reust, 9, who instantly put herself in the family’s shoes, her mother, Ashley Conn, told Fox News.