Two police officers from Edgewater were pinned down behind a brick wall for about 30 minutes early this morning, bullets whizzing past them from an unknown location. A SWAT team intervened and 11 people are in custody.
We believe we have the shooter,” Lakewood police spokesman Steve Davis said.
Davis said it all started around the 12:30 p.m. as a call of shots fired near West 20th Avenue and Marshall Street in Edgewater.
Davis said an Edgewater officer in the area reported the shots at the same time the 911 call came in to Jefferson County Sheriff’s dispatchers.
The officer got out to investigate and was fired upon, Davis said. A second officer arrived and was also fired upon, and the two took cover behind a brick wall about a half block from where they believed the shots were being fired.
Davis said the shots were coming in volleys of one to eleven bullets at a time.
“The officers were scared,” Davis said, adding the officers could not pinpoint where the gunfire was originating and therefore couldn’t return fire.
A reverse emergency notification call went out to residents within a quarter-mile of the situation and a SWAT unit from Jefferson County was called in, Davis said.
The officers narrowed down the location of the shots to either 2011 Marshall Street or 2000 Marshall Street, according to Davis.
A SWAT team came in and shut power to a two to three block area and were able to take 11 people into custody.
“There may be a possible second shooter in that group,” Davis said, adding that police believe they have everybody in custody who was a threat during the situation.
No injuries were reported in the incident.
Davis said three infants were inside the home at the time of the gunfire, but all three were taken into protective custody.
