A Denver police officer shot a person who police mentioned was armed and threatening a girl he was holding hostage.
The incident occurred about 11:20 p.m. Friday within the 3500 block of York Avenue, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas mentioned at an information briefing posted on Twitter at 1:45 a.m. Saturday.
Thomas mentioned the late-night taking pictures is linked to a Denver street rage incident. Officers responded about 5:30 p.m. Friday to a report of photographs fired from inside one automobile at one other automobile within the space of West Colfax Avenue and Interstate 25. The sufferer driver adopted the suspect automobile, as he talked on a cellular phone with a police dispatcher, to the world of East forty seventh Avenue and Josephine Avenue. Officers arrived and didn’t discover suspects, however did discover the suspect automobile parked and deserted, Thomas mentioned.
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Police watched the truck and about 11 p.m. 4 folks got here out of a close-by residence and acquired into the automobile. Officers pursued the automobile, making an attempt to cease it, and the motive force fled. Pictures had been fired from the truck at pursuing officers, Thomas mentioned.
The truck crashed, throughout a “pressured cease,” close to East thirty fifth Avenue and York Avenue, Thomas mentioned. Officers surrounded the automobile and a person, holding a girl, emerged from the truck.
Officers “believed” the person was armed, and “he was threatening to kill” the lady, Thomas mentioned. Police ordered the person to launch the lady and drop the weapon however he didn’t comply.
One officer fired one shot, hitting the person, Thomas mentioned. The person and the lady dropped to the bottom, with the suspect nonetheless holding the sufferer. Officers “negotiated” with the person, who did give up. Each the suspect and the lady had been taken to a hospital.
Thomas described the suspect as being in secure situation. The girl was handled for a leg damage, doubtless suffered within the crash or when she was pulled from the truck, Thomas mentioned. Two different folks, who had remained within the truck in the course of the standoff, had been additionally taken to hospital. All 4 had been “in custody.”
Investigations into the street rage incident, the crash and hostage state of affairs, and the police taking pictures are ongoing.