Denver police release Adams County, state trooper body cam footage from shooting
Denver police on Thursday released body-worn camera footage from a June 2 police shooting involving an Adams County Sheriff’s deputy and a Colorado State Patrol trooper.
The shooting took place at about 11 a.m. at the Sinclair gas station near the intersection of 6th Avenue and Santa Fe Drive in Denver. Police said at the time that a man — later identified as Joshua Jackson, 35 — was suspected of stealing a work truck in Adams County earlier that day.
The truck was equipped with a tracker that allowed officers from the Colorado Metropolitan Task Force to track the vehicle to the gas station, where an Adams County Sheriff’s deputy and a state trooper confronted the man.
In the footage, officers can be seen arriving at the gas station as a man is seen running inside. In the camera footage from the Adams County deputy, he can be heard yelling “he’s got a gun” and “drop the gun” as the deputy runs up to the gas station and stands outside it with his gun drawn and pointed inside.
After about 10 seconds of officers issuing commands to drop a gun, the Adams County deputy opens fire. He fires a total of 10 shots through the glass door of the gas station, while the Colorado state trooper fires three times. It is unknown how many shots hit Jackson or if anyone else was in the store at the time of the shooting.

About a minute after the shooting, the deputy, the trooper and a swarm of other officers at the scene, including members of Denver Police Department, entered the store and began attending to Jackson.
He survived the shooting and was taken to a hospital. Police said after the shooting that he faced a charge of second-degree motor vehicle theft.
No officers were injured in the shooting.




