The person fatally shot by a Fountain police officer Thursday afternoon was a 17-year-old boy, officials said Friday.
Jacqueline Kirby, spokeswoman for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the shooting, said the teenager’s name will not be released because he is a juvenile.
Kirby said an autopsy was completed Friday morning and that his cause and manner of death will be determined once toxicology reports are returned “in a few weeks.”
Police say the shooting happened about 2:45 p.m. in the 700 block of Legend Oak Drive as two officers responded to a disturbance.
“Officers responded to the scene and upon arrival officers were involved in a shooting,” police said in a news release.
The teen was pronounced dead about 5:15 p.m., the county sheriff’s office said.
The Gazette reports that only one of the officers at the scene fired and that the officer has been placed on leave. Police say the person shot was armed with a handgun, the newspaper said. The last officer-involved shooting in Fountain was in 2012, according to The Gazette.
