Found Deceased CO- Tayler Esslinger, 26, Gypsum, Eagle County, 25 June 2019 *Sheriffs Deputy*

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About 40 people are searching for a sheriff’s deputy and volunteer firefighter who has been missing since Tuesday.

Tayler Esslinger, 26, of Gypsum, was last seen early Tuesday morning driving a 2011 black Dodge pickup with firefighter license plates with the number 719YBC.

Tyler Esslinger, Tayler’s brother, said searchers are combing Spring Creek Road and surrounding areas. He said they may have found tire tracks that belong to Tayler’s truck, but the truck has not been found. It’s possible that Tayler has left the county, though, Tyler added.

Friends, family, co-workers and community members met Thursday morning at the Gypsum fire station to coordinate search efforts.

Tayler, a lifelong Eagle Valley local, is a detention deputy at the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office and a volunteer engineer with the Gypsum Fire Protection District.

If you have any information, call Vail dispatch at 970-479-2201.

Searchers comb Gypsum area looking for missing deputy
 
Found deceased.
Body of missing Eagle County deputy found inside truck in rural Garfield County
[The body of a missing Eagle County Sheriff’s deputy was located Friday inside his truck in a rural part of Garfield County, officials said....

The sheriff’s office in its news release encouraged people who needed counseling to seek help. A cause of death was not immediately released, but among resources the sheriff’s office referred people to was suicide prevention support.]
 
Autopsy finds missing Colorado deputy killed himself

A western Colorado coroner says a sheriff's deputy who was the subject of a three-day search last week died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Searchers found the body of 26-year-old Tayler Esslinger in his truck on June 28 in Garfield County. A Colorado National Guard helicopter crew had spotted his vehicle.

Esslinger was an Eagle County deputy and spent 12 years as a volunteer firefighter with the Gypsum Fire Protection District.

The Vail Daily reports Garfield County Coroner Robert Glassmire said Tuesday he ruled Esslinger's death a suicide.
 
Autopsy finds missing Colorado deputy killed himself

A western Colorado coroner says a sheriff's deputy who was the subject of a three-day search last week died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Searchers found the body of 26-year-old Tayler Esslinger in his truck on June 28 in Garfield County. A Colorado National Guard helicopter crew had spotted his vehicle.

Esslinger was an Eagle County deputy and spent 12 years as a volunteer firefighter with the Gypsum Fire Protection District.

The Vail Daily reports Garfield County Coroner Robert Glassmire said Tuesday he ruled Esslinger's death a suicide.
Such a shame. His poor family. I hope he found peace
 

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