 So good afternoon. I'm commander Barb Archer with major crimes. We're here to give you some information on the after involved shooting yesterday and Lieutenant Matt Clark for major crimes has the information for you Thank You commander. I'm lieutenant Matt Clark CLARK from the Denver police major crimes division I just want to give you a brief update about the incident that occurred yesterday involving the police officer involved shooting This incident started Tuesday August 16th yesterday at about 415 in the afternoon one of our undercover officers spotted a vehicle that was used or taken excuse me in a Carjacking in Arapahoe County that incident had occurred two days prior The undercover officer was calling in marked units When he lost sight of the vehicle approximately three minutes after losing sight a Uniformed officer driving a marked vehicle located that This vehicle that had been carjacked and it was parked in the parking lot of the Denver Community Credit Union at 10th Excuse me 12th and federal That vehicle the way the officer found it was backed into a parking space there It was kind of hastily parked in that it was at an angle and crossing over two lines Parking lines there given the time spread the officer didn't know immediately if that vehicle was occupied so as he pulls into the Parking lot he pulls in front of the vehicle and recognizes that it is in fact occupied by three individuals That officer Requests additional backup again. He's a marked excuse me a uniformed officer in a marked police vehicle He begins challenging verbally challenging the individuals in the vehicle Ordering them to show their hands while at gunpoint with these individuals waiting for cover Almost immediately all three doors on the vehicle simultaneously open or three of the four doors There's two in the back seat and one in the front the driver those doors open and everybody Bails out of the vehicle and begins running the officer's attention is drawn to the driver Who comes out of the vehicle with a handgun a black handgun in his hand? The officer briefly pursues him on foot and While in engaged in the foot chase the officer discharges his weapon multiple times that individual the suspect is hit He gets into the alley and is taken into custody without further incident at that point He's transported to Denver health Medical Center That suspect is a juvenile so I can't give too much information about him He did sustain a leg injury from the being hit by the bullet It is a non-life threatening injury and he is expected to survive that The two other individuals that fled from the vehicle were captured within ten minutes of that arrest of the driver within blocks of the of the original scene there at the bank, so we have the three people that were in the vehicle initially all accounted for and in custody The individual that we that was shot and there was a driver of that vehicle that had been car jacked I did have multiple warrants for his arrest again being a juvenile. I'm limited on what I can release on that He does face new charges as a result of this incident for felony menacing in relation to his Interaction with the officer The other two individuals that were in the car also both juveniles can't release much more on them But they also have to they also have multiple arrests warrants and they were held in the juvenile youth facility for those the We did recover a gun Very near where the suspect was taken into custody that gun we cleared the serial number and determined it was stolen in a burglary We're working to determine and get additional information that incident did not happen in Denver So we're waiting on reports and putting additional information together on how that individual came to have that that handgun During the investigation we recover excuse me We recovered a second handgun in the back of the vehicle that had been car jacked the Vehicle of the officer initially contacted that handgun had been abandoned in the vehicle And we're working to determine if that was stolen or where that handgun came from also To provide you a little bit of information about the vehicle. It was a 2005 gold Volvo s60 that Was the exact vehicle that was taken in a car jacking in Rappau County that incident was reported to have occurred on August 14th at about 1 45 in the morning That's not aren't our jurisdiction. So we are working with that county in that jurisdiction to get their reports and Shore up that investigation to determine if the individuals we contacted in the vehicle are responsible for the car jacking The information that was available to the officers was that during the car jacking incident the robbery of the vehicle in Rappau County? Multiple suspects were involved and that there were guns used in that in that incident there Through the investigation. We have no indication that the Individual that was in the driver's seat that was eventually Wounded by the officer that he fired his gun at any time. We have no indication that that happened No officers were injured in this incident And the officer that was involved I'm not identifying at this point the media relations will release that later He's a 10-year veteran of the police department. He's a patrol officer works in a uniform capacity to sign the district one He is currently placed on admin leave as as prior protocol Pending the invest the outcome of this investigation. This investigation was done cooperatively In line with our typical protocol working with the Aurora Police Department in the Denver district attorney's office We know that there were many witnesses there We interviewed a number of witnesses last night and I'd ask if there are any additional witnesses Our people who have information or video of this encounter to contact the Denver Police Department or Denver Crime Stoppers So we can get that information and include that as part of our investigation. I Believe that's all I have if you have some brief questions, I'd be happy to address them So that's part of again. We're in the early stage as you can appreciate it or a day after We're that's part of the investigation right now is to determine what led to that I don't know specifically. It's in the Rapo County. That's all I know at this point We're still looking to invest in investigating I can tell you for sure that he did come out of that vehicle with the handgun in his hand at that point That's what the officer initially saw there