An officer-involved shooting happened Wednesday afternoon in the University Hills area of Denver, police said.
ALERT: is at Yale & Colorado following an officer-involved shooting. Suspect is now in custody and being transported to the hospital. Large police presence in the area. Updates on this thread.
— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice)
The shooting happened in the area of East Yale Avenue and South Colorado Boulevard, according to police.
Officers encountered a man, who was wanted, in a nearby business and the suspect fled to a vehicle, said Div. Chief Ron Thomas, on Twitter. Three or four officers surrounded the vehicle, and the suspect brandished a handgun. Two officers fired their weapons into the vehicle, and the suspect was hit by gunfire.
Officers pulled the man from the vehicle, and an ambulance took him to a local hospital in critical condition, Thomas said. The man was not immediately identified. A multi-agency investigation into the police shooting is underway.
