DENVER — Denver officers fired at an armed man early Sunday morning after a house party shooting injured three people in the city’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood.
The incident took place at a residence on E. 51st Place near N. Biscay Street.
Officers have not yet located the person they shot at, whom they believe was connected to the house party shooting.
Officers do not know whether they hit the suspect. Police found two handguns during their search.
Around 2 a.m. Sunday, a large fight in the Green Valley Ranch neighborhood prompted a 911 call, according to Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas.
Officers arrived at a home near E. 51st Place and N. Biscay Street, where they heard gunfire after the initial 911 call but before they intervened.
“They then moved towards that gunfire and saw several people running. They identified an individual who was in possession of a weapon. They challenged that individual. He did not drop the gun. He continued to be a threat, so an officer, I believed, fired the shots at that individual,” said Thomas.
The three people involved in the initial shooting had non-life-threatening injuries. Chief Thomas clarified that these gunshot wounds were sustained before police arrived.
The police chief urges anyone with information to contact the Denver Police Department as officers investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.
The suspect shot at by police remains at large.
