The 35-year-old man who allegedly shot and injured two Denver police officers on Sunday and engaged in an hours-long standoff with authorities shot himself to death, according to the Denver coroner’s office.
Joseph Quintana’s cause of death was a gunshot wound, according to a news release by Steven Castro, spokesman for the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.
“The manner of death was determined to be suicide,” Castro’s news release said.
Quintana was transported to the hospital Sunday evening, after a standoff with Denver police that began earlier in the afternoon at his home near Inca Street and Sixth Avenue.
Police responded to the area twice on Sunday morning on reports of gunshots. At about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Quintana allegedly shot two officers, and the standoff intensified, as dozens of officers flooded the neighborhood. Officers deployed chemical agents into the house after 4 p.m. in an attempt to get Quintana to exit the house. The house caught fire after 5 p.m., though police have not said what caused the fire.
Quintana was taken into custody at 6 p.m.
He was taken to Denver Health Medical Center on Sunday, the news release said. He was pronounced dead on Monday morning.
A was created by the Quintana family to help raise funds for Mary Quintana, identified as Joseph Quintana’s mother, because her home was destroyed in the fire. As of Thursday morning, it had raised $320 of the $10,000 goal.
