LIMON — A five-hour standoff in which SWAT units and law enforcement officers surrounded a mobile home on the west side of Limon ended shortly before midnight.
Officials said details of the incident would be released at a post-midnight news conference.
Jim Hartwig, manager of the Wagon Wheel Mobile Home Park, said the neighborhood was evacuated about 6:15 p.m. He said Limon police officers were responding to a domestic dispute when one of the officers was shot.
Hartwig said he believed a second officer and a woman were being held hostage, but officials would not confirm that, and The Associated Press reported officials did not believe there were hostages.
Hartwig said he had heard at least three shots fired.
Several law enforcement authorities — including deputies from Lincoln, Elbert and Douglas counties, and members of the Colorado State Patrol and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation — and a medical helicopter were on the scene late Wednesday.
Hartwig said the man holed up in the trailer had been upset.
“I asked the cops if I could talk to him, but they wouldn’t let me,” Hartwig said.
KKTV-Channel 11 and News4 said they had confirmed that a law officer had been killed, but officials would not confirm those reports. A witness said he saw a downed officer receiving CPR.
Josh Wiedemann said he had just moved into the park Wednesday.
He said he heard “a pop and a whiz,” and when he went outside, a law officer with a shotgun told him to get out.
Limon is about 90 miles east of Denver on Interstate 70.
