An meant for a small section of Denver’s Ruby Hill neighborhood was accidentally sent to the entire city on Saturday afternoon, police officials said.
Officers responded to an armed robbery near the intersection of West Gunnison Drive and South Zuni Street at 1:04 p.m. and issued a shelter-in-place order for a one-block radius after two suspects fled into a nearby home, Denver Police Department spokesperson Siena Riley said.
Police arrested the two suspects and sent follow up alert to lift the shelter in place at 1:50 p.m., which was accidentally sent to everyone, Riley said.
No one was injured in the robbery.
In a post on X, officials said the all-clear alert was “inadvertently sent out further than intended.”
“Denver Police are working with the Department of Safety/Denver 911 to identify what happened,” agency officials wrote in social media.
A similar alert was mistakenly sent citywide in January for a person who was barricaded near the University of Denver.
