 My name, first of all, is Doug Sheppin, last name is spelled S-C-H-E-P-M-A-N. And I'm a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department. So kind of the rundown of what happened here this evening around 4.45 this afternoon. Officers were in the area attempting to locate a male suspect related to aggravated robbery cases and multiple jurisdictions both in and out of state. That party was believed to be armed and dangerous at the time. The suspect was in a vehicle traveling westbound on Colfax, approached the traffic light here at Quebec. Officers attempted a traffic stop. At that time, the suspect who is an adult male, attempted to kind of ram his way between a couple of cars that were stopped. Officers observed the suspect brandished a firearm. And three of our officers did discharge their weapons, striking that suspect who was pronounced deceased here on the scene. There was a adult female passenger that was in the suspect vehicle. She was transported for evaluation of injuries. It's unclear at this time if those injuries are gunshot related. We also had one officer transported for evaluation of injuries as well, but not gunshot related. So we currently have both directions of Colfax closed between Quebec and Wind Streets. We suspect that closure will remain in place for several hours as investigators process the scene here. The Office of the Medical Examiner will be the agency that releases the identity of the deceased suspect. And in situations where we have an officer involved shooting, we have an established protocol that that investigation includes investigators from the Denver Police Department, the Aurora Police Department, the Denver DA's office, as well as the Denver Office of the Independent Monitor. Do you have any questions? A police officer, what are his or her tools? I'm not clear what the injuries are that he was transported for evaluation. But to my knowledge, it's not any kind of gunshot related injury. Did the suspects shoot at officers? That's part of what will be the investigation as it goes on. The officers did observe the suspect's brandish of firearm, and that's when they discharged their weapons. Did we see bullet holes in the police car and the windshield? I did not observe that, I'm sorry. Well, can you tell us about how many states this gentleman was wanted in or were they under surveillance or did you just have to run across? Right, so I don't have the details as far as what states and how many cases this party is one associated in association with. But these are cases that are aggravated bank robberies and multiple jurisdictions both here in Colorado and out of state. Were federal authorities involved then? I'm sorry? Federal authorities involved as well since they were bank robberies? The Safe Streets Task Force was involved in trying to locate this individual. And was there indeed a weapon in the car that the suspect was in? The officers did observe the suspect's brandish of firearm. And there was one found after the shooting? They're still processing the scene at this time, but the officers did observe a firearm being brandished by that suspect when they discharged the weapons. Where was the alleged robbery taking place? Yeah, and again, I don't have the specifics on the robberies and whether, when they occurred and exactly where they occurred, but I'm told. He was wanted in relation to aggravated bank robberies and multiple jurisdictions. The gender of the officer who was slightly injured is, I don't know how you characterize it. I don't know the genders of the, we had three officers who were involved here who discharged their weapons. I don't know their genders and don't have their names to release at this time. How about the suspect, do you have any description? The suspect is an adult male. His standard protocol, the Office of the Medical Examiner will positively identify the man and release his identity. Is there a second suspect? There was a female passenger in the suspect vehicle. She was transported for evaluation of injuries. Was she shot? It's unclear right now if her injuries are gunshot related. You won't call her a suspect yet, are you not ready to identify her as a suspect? Correct, so investigators will work to determine what her involvement was in this particular situation. How many other cars were damaged? Well, there were two cars at the light westbound on Colfax, Acreback when the officers attempted to do a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle. He attempted to kind of ram his way between those two vehicles, so they're certainly damaged to those two vehicles. Car trying to ram his way through a couple of vehicles, middle of a busy intersection of busy afternoon, just your early on kind of ideas of three officers, lots of bullets flying, is this normal? No, definitely not normal. It's obviously something that we never want to see happen on our streets here. And we're certainly lucky that no other witnesses or parties that were involved were injured in the kind of way. Too early to say if officers followed protocol or not, that's kind of what I was getting. Right, that'll be part of the investigation as a boost for. There'll be a investigation into the criminal aspects of this case. And once that is completed and the DA's office determines whether or not the officer's actions were justified, then the department does an internal review of the situation. Before the shots for a fire, would you characterize it as a pursuit that police were in? It wasn't a pursuit, they pulled up behind the vehicle to my knowledge of this stage of the investigation. They pulled up behind the vehicle to attempt a traffic stop. The vehicle tried to take off by going through the vehicles that were in front of them, directly in front of them. And that's where the incident ended there. So a matter of just feet, not even a block really, just did all just happen very close proximity to the vehicle. That's my understanding. Did the police car that pulled up behind, was it marked or unmarked? You know, it was a marked vehicle. It was a marked vehicle. We'll let you know. We'll let you know. And also the firearm handgun? I don't have specifics on what type of firearm at this point. Once the investigators are able to fully process the scene, we will have a little bit more information about this. It's kind of the details of evidence that you guys are kind of seeking right now. You know if the vehicle he was in is stored at Stonewall? I'm not aware if it was stored at Stonewall or not. I apologize, was he under surveillance either by Denver FBI or out of state entities? So to my knowledge, the Safe Streets Task Force was attempting to locate this party. And through those efforts, it was located in this area, which resulted in this attempted stop at Officer Gulch. What's accurate to say that's the FBI? Well, there are multiple agencies that are on the Safe Streets Task Force and can't list them off for you right now. What robbery or robberies occurred in this jurisdiction? So we'll have to, that's information that we'll have to get to be able to release to you guys. I don't have that with me right now to be able to say what cases in Denver are connected to the suspect and what cases from other jurisdictions. It's just not detailed that I have right now to release. I don't know what the Safe Streets Task Force is, what's their objective, and who's part of that. It's a multi-jurisdictional task force that addresses things. One of them is bank robbers. Is it a traffic violation or are they pulling him over because he's on the Safe Streets? Right. They were attempting to stop because they wanted to locate and place it to custody of this individual for these bank robbers. Is he from Colorado? No, I don't know. Again, the identity of the individual, they determined and released by the Office of Medical Examiner. He was driving away in a car and yet officers see that he brandished the weapon. Is it safe to say that he pointed a gun at officers? Officers observe the weapon and so at that point they obviously made the decision to discharge their weapon. The details of the chronology of that exactly is something that we'll determine through this ongoing investigation. Wouldn't you say brandished? Does that mean he had it in his hand or did they just observe a weapon in a car? Yes, I'm told that he had a gun in his hand. Okay. Thank you, Doug. Appreciate it.