A person who engaged in an hours-long standoff with police at a Commerce City home after officers responded to a report of shots fired has been apprehended, authorities Monday afternoon.
A shelter-in-place order for the neighborhood surrounding the home in the 5300 block of 63rd Place, which was put into place Monday morning, was lifted around 3 p.m. and police told neighbors that they were “safe to move about the area.”
The suspect, who was not identified, is facing numerous charges, including illegal discharge of a weapon,
reckless endangerment for firing through the wall and into a neighbor’s house, obstruction, resisting, failure to vacate, and possession of a weapon by a previous offender.
The suspect, who barricaded themselves in the home after police arrived to a report of shots fired at 7:36 a.m., was “refusing to comply with orders and exit safely,” Commerce City police said. Initially, authorities said they were dealing with multiple occupants but later clarified that it was one individual.
SWAT team members and negotiators were on scene, authorities said, though no details were provided about how the suspect was taken into custody.
