A gunfight Sunday evening in Montrose left a suspect hospitalized in severe situation and a sheriff’s deputy unhurt.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is predicted to evaluate the capturing.
The deputy was responding to a name of a disturbance shortly earlier than 6 p.m. by folks in a house the place the disturbance was occurring. Upon arrival, the deputy confronted gunfire, Montrose County Sheriff Gene Lillard mentioned. “The man got here out from behind the home and began capturing on the deputy.”
The deputy returned fireplace “and incapacitated the suspect,” Lillard mentioned. “The suspect went down. The deputy was not hit. His Tahoe acquired a whole lot of injury.”
The suspected was recovering within the Montrose Regional Hospital, listed in “severe however steady” situation.
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