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Denver police shoot armed man in Lower Downtown; 5 bystanders suffer non-life threatening injuries

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Denver police on Sunday shot and critically wounded a man they say was armed and posed “a significant threat” to other people in the Lower Downtown area.

Five bystanders — three women and two men — were also injured in the incident, police said.

Police said they suffered “non-life-threatening injuries,” and that investigators are working to determine whether they were injured as a direct or indirect result of the officer-involved shooting. An indirect result, the police said, could be from a ricochet or shrapnel.

Officers were patrolling the LoDo district when they observed an altercation between three parties around 1:30 a.m. near 20th and Larimer streets, according to a probable statement. 

One of the individuals involved in the altercation “began to grab at his waits band and lifted up his hoody as though he was armed with a handgun,” the police statement of probable cause said. Police identified the man as Jordan Waddy, 21.

The officers approached Waddy, who began to walk away from the officers, the police said, adding the officers caught up with Waddy.

One of the officers “observed Waddy again reaching into his waist band or pocket in a motion consistent with pulling out a firearm,” the police said. One of the officers said he “was in fear of his life as Waddy was now armed with a firearm and pointed the firearm in their direction.”    

The police fired at Waddy, who fell to the ground. An officer said Waddy threw his firearm into the ground, the police said. 

Investigators do not believe that Waddy fired his gun, the police said.  

Everyone injured in the shooting was expected to survive, police said. Waddy was being held on suspicion of felony menacing and possession of a weapon by a previous offender.

The officers who shot Waddy will be on administrative leave while authorities investigate the shooting.

Sunday’s shooting was the third involving Denver police in the past five days. On Wednesday, officers fatally shot a person they say fired at them in the city’s Globeville neighborhood.

In that incident, police responded to a report of people with weapons near Seventh Avenue and Federal Boulevard. A car fled from the scene and stopped near East 49th Avenue and Washington Street. 

Officers came under fire when they approached the car, police said. Two officers returned fire, striking one person, who died after being taken to a hospital.

On Friday, police shot and killed a man during a domestic violence call in the 300 block of 51st Avenue. The man “had control” of a female victim who had been stabbed before officers arrived, police said.

Each investigation is being handled by members of the Denver Police Department, Colorado State Patrol, Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Denver District Attorney’s Office.

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