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What you know about this officer who is being remembered fondly this morning. >> well, victor, he is officer garrett swasey. he's a six-year veteran of the school's police force in colorado springs. he's a sworn peace officer, much like someone isn't atlanta would be or the colorado police department. what we learned about him he leaves a family, his wife rachel, a young son elijah and a daughter faith. garrett was an elder in hope chapel which is a northeast colorado springs church. he was overseeing care groups and he participates in this teaching team who played guitar. officer swasey grew ...

Hallucinogenic effects, seizures, psychosis, several reported suicides. >> and in grand forks, north dakota, the deaths of elijah sty and christian bjerk. it turns out the drugs that killed elijah and christian arrived in grand forks by mail. purchased over the internet by a local drug dealer. >> he was one of the primary sources of supply for analog controlled substances in this area. >> but finding that dealer would turn out to be only the beginning in unraveling this deadly mystery, which was about to take yet another turn. [announcer] welcome to the re-imagined quickbooks.

>> outside court, the burik's leave for the last time. their sentence is for life. >> it's never going to be done. christian was a child. he's our flesh and blood. he's someone so important to us we would have given our lives for him. you know, our job now is just to get the word out there to the rest of the people so that no other families have to go through this kind of thing and to honor our son, to honor his memory. >> only kids and young adults sitting in here today, please tell them this story. >> since their son christian's death, the burik's have become activists getting out the word o...

In. because i couldn't see him like that. i was -- >> he was dead. >> he was dead. yeah. >> we got the phone call that eli wasn't breathing, he was blue in the face. >> you had to call your mom. >> i called her when i was outside waiting for 911. >> and told her? >> told her eli died. >> were you able to fully tell her why? >> no. i was ashamed of myself for failing him, more or less. i felt like i had failed him. >> justin was a teen when elijah's family had taken him in, raised hip as their own. >> after everything he had done for me, eli was lying there dead, and i was alive. >> elijah suff...

What killed this healthy 18-year-old was a mystery that was about to strike this small midwest community again. >> we need an ambulance. we have a kid here who is not breathing. >> okay. where is it at? >> east grand forks. i don't think he's breathing at all there. >> no, he's dead. we need somebody now. >> can you start cpr with him? >> it was three days before eli's birthday. >> he would be 18. >> he wanted to go to grand forks to see his cousin and spend time there with justin. >> melissa katz's son elijah, was in grand forks to celebrate an upcoming birthday. he was with his foster brothe...