A man was shot and killed by a carjacker in the Stapleton area after being abducted from a Wal-Mart parking lot Thursday night, police said.
The car was ditched a few blocks away and, after midnight, police continued to comb the area around Martin Luther King Jr. Park with flashlights, dogs and helicopters.
The stolen Pontiac Grand Prix was left in a nearby alley between Oneida and Newport streets, police said.
The body found in or near the car had not been positively identified at midnight as the person abducted from the store on Smith Road near Interstate 70. The abducted man initially had been a passenger in the car.
The car’s original driver was left behind unhurt at the Wal-Mart, although shots were fired there, police said.
The shooting happened the same day that police issued a Crime Stoppers Alert in the wake of two violent attempted carjackings this week.
“It does not appear be connected to the other crimes,” Detective Sharon Hahn, a spokeswoman for the Denver Police Department, said late Thursday night.
Thursday’s carjacking began near the same Wal-Mart at Smith Road where a woman went for help Sunday after she was shot while waiting at a nearby red light.
A man was shot Tuesday night in an attempted carjacking in the same area, Martin Luther King and Central Park boulevards.
