CASTLE ROCK, Colo.—Police stormed a suburban Denver home Saturday evening and arrested a 40-year-old man who authorities said shot his pregnant wife earlier in the day, then barricaded himself alone inside the home.
The man’s 33-year-old wife drove away from her house with her 3-year-old son and the family dog after she was shot Saturday morning at about 8:15 a.m., police said.
Police in Castle Rock, about 25 miles south of Denver, surrounded the man’s home and attempted to contact him, said Kim Mutchler, a spokeswoman for the city. About 10 to 15 nearby homes were evacuated, she said.
Mutchler said the woman drove to her mother’s house, also in Castle Rock, where she was met by emergency personnel and taken to a Denver hospital.
Mutchler would not specify how the woman was wounded.
Douglas County SWAT officers deployed tear gas a couple of times Saturday, but it wasn’t enough to resolve the standoff.
A SWAT team stormed the home after 7 p.m.
