Tag: Officer-involved Shooting
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Deputies: Man admitted to murdering in-laws to police dispatch, asked to be shot
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man who was fatally shot by police at the scene of a double homicide in Adams County Friday morning allegedly called 911 dispatch, confessed to the killing and asked police to shoot him, Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies say. The 51-year-old man, identified as the son-in-law…
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Adams County Sheriff’s deputy not charged in February 2024 shooting
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office announced that Adams County Sheriff’s Deputy Lane Paintin was not charged in the shooting of a man in Denver last year. Paintin, who fired his handgun four times at Francisco Cruz, shooting him in the chest, was found to…
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Denver police justified in fatal shooting of man with airsoft pistol, DA says
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver district attorney cleared four Denver Police Department officers involved in the shooting of a man they believed armed with a handgun, ruling their use of deadly force justified. All of the officers fired their weapons, shooting and killing 57-year-old Jose Medina behind Annunciation Catholic…
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Man shot by Lakewood police Friday after alleged Home Depot theft
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The Lakewood Police Department says one of its officers shot and injured a man near a busy intersection Friday afternoon. The incident occurred near the corner of West Colfax Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard — near the Walmart Supercenter and Regional Transportation District’s Wadsworth station — around 2:30 p.m., according to a social media post by the…
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Man shot and killed by Denver Police Department officers Thursday
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Multiple Denver Police Department officers shot and killed a man Thursday evening who allegedly brandished a handgun at them. Officers responded to the alley behind Annunciation Catholic School in the 3500 block of North Humboldt Street — in the Cole neighborhood — around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a press conference held by Denver Police Department Chief…
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Suspect injured in police-involved shooting at Denver park Monday
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A Denver Police Department officer shot a suspect and arrested another after reports of gunshots near a park Monday evening. Officers responded to the area of West 13th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard — near Paco Sanchez Park — around 10:30 p.m. Monday evening after receiving a shot spotter alert, according to a social media post by the…
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Ex-Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputy Andrew Buen convicted of criminally negligent homicide
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A jury found former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Andrew Buen guilty of criminally negligent homicide — but not of second-degree murder — in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Christian Glass on June 11, 2022 outside of Silver Plume. The charge is a lesser included offense in the second-degree murder charge. Buen stood at the podium…
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Deputy shot in Adams County SWAT standoff
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Editor’s note: following the incident, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office added that three deputies were shot in the standoff overall. All suffered non-life threatening injuries. A deputy was shot after the serving of a search warrant turned into a barricade situation at a home in Adams County Thursday morning. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office SWAT…
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Armed suspect killed by Adams County deputy after deadly assault of family member
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An Adams County deputy shot and killed a homicide and carjacking suspect in an exchange of gunfire Saturday morning. The Brighton Police Department said at around 8:44 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to a report of an assault victim in the 200 block of North 11th Avenue. Officers found a 72-year-old man who had been killed…
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Officers won’t face charges in fatal Commerce City shooting
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Two local police officers will not face criminal charges in an officer-involved shooting that left a man dead last summer. 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason wrote a letter to corresponding police chiefs Wednesday regarding the justified use of force from Brighton Police Department Ofc. Tyler Sandusky and Commerce City Police Department Sgt. Tyler Ahlem…