A man who robbed a payday-loan business on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora this afternoon fired a shot at an employee and left behind a backpack that he said contained a bomb.
The Adams County Bomb Squad used a blast of water on the device and then found what appears to be a bomb.
“(It) was described as having all the makings of an explosive device,” Sgt. Cassidee Carlson, the Aurora police spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.
The incident began at 4:30 p.m. at the Ace Cash Express at 11703 E. Colfax Ave.
Streets were closed until about 7 p.m.
Carlson said the man walked in the store, put the backpack on the counter and ordered an employee to give him money.
The worker instead ducked behind a counter, and the robber pulled a pistol from his waistband and fired two shots in the direction of the employee, she said.
No one was injured, however.
Police said the man is black in his early 20s. He was about 6 feet tall, about 165 pounds with a thin build.
He was wearing a gray shirt, sunglasses and a black scarf over his face.
