A Denver police officer shot an armed man in a parking zone close to Coors Discipline early Saturday morning.
In a Saturday morning information briefing, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas mentioned a person was shot within the arm by a police officer round 2 a.m. in a parking zone close to the intersection of nineteenth and Market streets.
An individual strolling within the space flagged down the police officer — who was working crowd management in Denver’s LoDo district — and reported a person with a gun standing subsequent to a automobile in a close-by parking zone, Thomas mentioned.
When the officer went to research, he discovered a automobile matching the particular person’s description and informed the person standing subsequent to it to lift his palms, Thomas mentioned within the briefing.
Thomas mentioned the person didn’t comply and pulled out a gun “in a threatening method.” The police chief didn’t elaborate on how the person pulled out the gun or if he pointed it on the officer.
The officer fired one shot, hitting the person within the arm, Thomas mentioned.
The person, who has not been recognized, was taken to the hospital, the place he’s at present in “severe situation,” in line with Thomas. No officers had been injured.
Thomas mentioned that whereas a number of gunshots had been heard within the space, solely one in all them belonged to the officer.
One other capturing occurred within the parking zone on the similar time, and officers imagine there might have been a back-and-forth capturing between the person who was shot and others within the parking zone, Thomas mentioned.
One particular person was injured within the non-police capturing, however he drove off after to a 7/11 close to Downing and Lawrence streets — about two miles away from the unique capturing — Thomas mentioned.
A number of witnesses had been taken in for questioning, together with the one who flagged the officer down initially, and the shootings stay beneath investigation.
The police capturing is being investigated by the 2nd Judicial District Important Incident Assessment Workforce, which incorporates representatives from the District Lawyer’s Workplace, Colorado State Patrol and Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
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