Tag: Police Shooting
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Armed suspect hospitalized after downtown Denver police shooting
Denver police officers shot and wounded an armed suspect early Sunday after responding to a reported shooting near 16th Street and California Avenue, police said. Officers were dispatched to the area around 2 a.m. on a report of a shooting, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said. The suspect fled the scene and was chased into…
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Aurora officer stabbed in head during shooting released from hospital
An Aurora Police Department officer who was stabbed multiple times in the head during an early April shooting was released from the hospital on Wednesday. Mark Moore, who joined the department in 2012, sustained life-threatening injuries during the altercation in which he shot and killed 23-year-old Amare Garlington on April 9, department officials said. His…
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Aurora officer stabbed in head with ‘butcher knife,’ suspect dead in shooting
An Aurora police officer remains hospitalized and a man is dead after a stabbing and police shooting near Cherry Creek State Park, Aurora Police Department officials said Thursday. On Friday afternoon, the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office identified the suspect as 23-year-old Amare James Garlington and declared his cause and manner of death to be homicide…
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Series of violent incidents in 24-hour period rock metro Denver area
The Denver area saw a string of violent death events stretching from Thursday to early Friday morning. Denver police investigated two shootings in the downtown area, one of which was fatal. The two shootings happened roughly an hour apart and a mile from each other. Aurora police officers also fatally shot a man after he…
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1 hospitalized in Denver police shooting near Dry Gulch Park
One person was injured and hospitalized in a police shooting near Lakewood / Dry Gulch Park in west Denver on Tuesday evening. The suspect, a man, was armed with a rifle-type gun and threatened a responding officer with it while hiding in an alleyway in the area of 1000 South Quitman Street, Denver Police Department…
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Police say Cherry Hills officer shot alleged thief during medical exam
A Cherry Hills Village police officer shot an alleged thief Thursday evening after the suspect attacked the officer during a medical exam, according to a department post on X. After arresting the suspect on suspicion of an auto theft earlier in the day, the officer was present while the suspect was undergoing a medical examination…
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Four Denver police officers found justified in October gas station shooting
Four Denver police officers were found justified in using deadly force against an armed robbery suspect in October at a Maverik convenience store. Alec Garcia, Vincent Roldan, Brian Martinez and Marco Nunez were found justified in the Oct. 27, 2025 fatal shooting of Hosea Rashid Moore, 35, who was holding two female employees at gunpoint…
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Denver police found justified in shooting of rod-wielding alleged burglar
Two Denver police officers were found justified in the fatal November shooting of a man suspected of burglarizing a home who approached them with a knife sharpening rod. Officers Michael Vasquez and Whaylen Phares were deemed to have acted in a proper manner in defending themselves against what they perceived to be the immediate threat…
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Arrest affidavit details ambush of Adams County deputy who was shot
The only living suspect in a January shooting of an Adams County Sheriff’s Office deputy gave a conflicting report to investigators about what happened that morning. But evidence shows one man distracted the deputy while the other ambushed him with gunfire. Angel Toledo, 19, faces charges of assault and felony menacing over his involvement in…
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Family of man fatally shot by DougCo deputy files wrongful death lawsuit
The family of a man who was fatally shot by a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both the deputy and the department. Tyrone Glover, an attorney representing the family of Jalin Seabron, said during a news conference Tuesday that he hoped to work with Douglas County officials to find…