The subject of a police manhunt that closed Interstate 70 for several hours was arrested Tuesday afternoon, police said.

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Kenny Espinoza, was also wanted in connection with a police shooting that took place near Wolff Run Park in Westminster Saturday morning, the Westminster Police Department said on social media Tuesday.

Espinoza, identified by Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek at a news conference that was recorded and posted on Facebook, was the target of a manhunt that shut down Interstate 70 in both directions between Gypsum and Glenwood Springs Tuesday.

The Eagle County Sheriff’s Office said the incident started just after 4 a.m. when a public safety office in Vail received a bulletin to be on the lookout for a Denver homicide suspect believed to be traveling with hostages near Gypsum.

Van Beek later clarified that the five passengers’ relation to the suspect was still being determined and that they were not necessarily hostages. He also noted some of the occupants of the vehicles were minors.

Deputies found a vehicle that matched the description speeding west on I-70 and began to chase it. Deputies said the vehicle got off I-70 at exit 119 and then immediately got back onto I-70, this time heading east. That’s when deputies tried to pull the driver over.

A chase ensued and deputies decided to use a spike strip to disable the vehicle, causing the chase to come to an end near mile marker 130.

Two people got out of the vehicle and deputies said one of them pointed a firearm at them, which led to an exchange of gunfire.

One person was injured in the shooting, but the other person, later identified as Espinoza, ran away, deputies said. The injured person was treated on scene and then taken to a local hospital. The people who remained in the suspect vehicle were contacted by police.

In addition to Tuesday’s police shooting, Espinoza is also a suspect in a fatal shooting that took place on Saturday at a parking lot near Westminster’s Wolff Run Park in the 4700 block of West 76 Avenue, according to a social media post by the Westminster Police Department.

Police found a man in his late 20s with several visible gunshot wounds in the parking lot around 7 a.m. Saturday, according to a previous post from the department. Witnesses in the area said they heard multiple gunshots around 2 a.m. and saw a dark-colored, newer sedan leaving the area at the time.

The injured individual in Tuesday’s shooting was not a deputy and has since been released from the hospital, Van Beek said.

A shelter-in-place order was issued in the surrounding area while the manhunt was underway, deputies said in a post on the department’s official Facebook page.

Van Beek also dispelled rumors that the incident involved an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation.

“That is absolutely not true at all,” the sheriff said.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation investigated the officer-involved shooting aspect of the incident and reopened the interstate once that investigation concluded, Van Beek said.