“First of all, I would like to point out that, as stipulated in the final pages of lead officer Cory Talor and I quote from his police report on the case and case number: Deputy Report for Case 15EL01092
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ELKO COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
OFFICER REPORT
OFFICER
DECLARATION
I hereby certify that 1 am a law enforcement officer, employed by the Elko County Sheriff’s Office, and that I am one of the officers investigating or aware of the facts described in the reports and statements attached hereto. I hereby affirm under pain and penalty of perjury that the facts set out in the reports and statements attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief except as otherwise noted therein.
Lead Officer; Taylor, Cory
Date of Declaration 07/04/2015
As given in an e-mail by myself to Howard Copeland shortly after receiving its release: It is obviously stated in the police report that Peacock was on the phone with Burnum as he committed his most unspeakable act:
- I have no motive in reporting this, even in the face of my family’s lawsuit against whom ever they can find. Of which I would like to report I have no participation in and am discusted by as well as I am with this newspaper report. Of which, regardless of being reported to the advocate by myself immediately following its release to me that Peakock was not only in a relationship with my brother along with Catherine Petro were on the phone with my brother as he was begging for help of which he received none:
Deputy Supplemental Report Case 15EL01092 Page 3 of 4
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On July 6, 2015 1 retrieved the coroner ‘B report and associated unattended death report regarding this case on Donald Burnum who was a West Wendover Police Department Detective Sergeant . {See attached reports) I would note that Burnum was prescribed numerous anti-depressants, pain medications, muscle relaxers, sedatives and high blood pressure medication. It was also insinuated during the course of this investigation that Burnum may have had an alcohol problem.
Upon reviewing the report I did note that Burnum was found just outside of the city limits of which he served. Bur-num appeared to have shot himself in the mouth with a Glock .45 ACP pistol.
On July 6, 201S I (Det. Sgt. N. S. Czegledi) took the cell phone found on the lap of the deceased and requested that Dee. Zack Hessing of the Elko Police Department extract the data from within the phone. I advised Det. Hessing that the cell phone belonged to the deceased in this case and a search warrant was not because the expectation of privacy ceased at death.
On or about July 7, 2015 Det. Hessing called and advised that the cell phone was ready and he had moved the data to a coQact disk. I reviewed the text messages near the time reported time of death and observed that Burnum was having a conversation with a person by the name of Shannon (later identified as Shannon J. Baker who is a dispatcher for West Wendover Police Department) . The text conversation was clearly a goodbye from Burnum to Shannon. Burnum concludes the conversation with: Send the coroner; Goodbye Shannon forever; goodbye Panda.
On July 9, 2015 1 interviewed Shannon on the phone. Shannon stated she started dating Burnum about eight months ago but it didn’t work out because he was living with another female by the name of Cat Petro. Shannon stated that Burnum had told her that he did not have a relationship with Cat Petro and that she was only a rooümate but said she believed otherwise and called off the relationship and started dating someone else.
Shannon went onto to state that Burnum had previously quit drinking but started up about a week before his death.
Shannon said that on the date of Burnum r s death she had just left work and spoke to Bur-num on the phone for about ten minutes (confirmed according to call log) .
I asked Shannon if Burnum had a “nickname tt for her and she said yes, Panda. I would note that Bur-num’s last message to Shannon was, “goodbye panda a .
At this time there is no evidence of criminality in the death of Burnum and there is clear and convincing evidence to believe this is a suicide by self—inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
End of report.
Donald’s story should be told. It was my brother who died. Along with all the rest that are failed to be mentioned by this report that once belonged to West Wendover. So many suicides and the truth will come out. Regardless of my parents, my sister, Howard Copland, or the town of West Wendover.
And as reported I am not Schizophrenic but SchizoAffective. There’s a difference.
Kurt Burnum
