AURORA | A parking lot fight in northwest Aurora evolved into an officer-involved shooting Thursday afternoon, fatally injuring an unidentified man police said was brandishing an “assault style” long gun.
Police Chief Todd Chamberlain said the incident began at about 1:30 p.m. when a resident at Brent’s Place, on the 1600 block of Oswego Street, called police to say two men outside in a parking lot were fighting, and one appeared to be armed with an assault-style rifle.
Brent’s Place provides housing for families with children or adults receiving long-term health care at one of several health-care institutions nearby at the Anschutz Medical Campus.
When officers arrived, they observed a man in a black hoodie, brandishing what appeared to be an “AR-style” assault rifle, Chamberlain told reporters later in the afternoon.
He said two officers repeatedly told the man to drop his weapon, and he did not.
At one point one of the officers fired at the man, striking him.
The man was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries, police said.
It did not immediately appear that the man fired at the officer, Chamberlain said, and an initial investigation revealed that only one officer fired his weapon at the man.
Chamberlain said it was “alarming” that a fight involving someone armed with an “AR-style” weapon occurred where dozens of families stay for healthcare, and close to a nearby middle school.
The identity of the man will be released by coroner officials.
Chamberlain did not offer details about the officers involved in the shooting, other than that they were placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard police protocol.
Oh, 🙁 I’m so sure he was a ‘good guy with a gun’.
This is certainly one way to address the gun issue here in Aurora.
If there wasn’t a 2nd amendment mineset….how might the gun issue be addressed?
When an officer orders me to drop my weapon, I.mmediately place it on the ground.
Questions and answers follow.
Rifleman drunk or on drugs?