A campus police officer was shot and injured in Denver early Monday morning while trying to apprehend a suspect who had trespassed into a vehicle, officials said.
The shooting unfolded at around 1:18 a.m. on the Auraria Campus, which is shared by Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Colorado Denver, in downtown Denver, campus officials said in a statement.
Two campus officers approached a suspect who was found “trespassing into a vehicle,” the statement said. The suspect allegedly assaulted the officers and fled.
When the officers later tracked down the suspect, officials said he resisted, and officers deployed a taser.
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An Auraria Campus Police officer was wounded in a shooting on campus early Monday, officials said. (Google Maps, File)
The suspect then fired multiple shots, hitting one officer in the arm before fleeing a second time.
The officer was treated for a non-life-threatening gunshot wound at a hospital and was later released.
Auraria Campus is shared by Community College of Denver, the Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post, File)
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Auraria Campus Police and Denver Police officers later arrested the suspect. The suspect was taken to a hospital for evaluation, though it was unclear whether the taser that officers initially deployed made contact, officials said.
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The Denver Police Department is investigating the incident.
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