 Last name is spelled S, C-H-E-P-M-A-N. I'm a spokesperson for the Denver Police Department. So this afternoon, officers made contact with two suspects in the 3,400 block of Irving Street. We believe this is related to a burglary call that came in over in the area of 37th and Grove. At that time, one of the two suspects was taken into custody. One of the suspects fled on foot and was chased by officers to the area of Mon Creek and Lowell where shots were exchanged. And one of our officers was struck in the foot. The suspect continued to flee, car jacked a vehicle, a pursuit was authorized, and the suspect lost control of that vehicle in the 3,500 block of Lowell where officers stopped it. At that location, officer shots were exchanged between the suspect and two officers. The suspect was hit and was pronounced at the scene. Do you have any questions? Correct. There was a person in the vehicle that was car jacked. That person was not injured. A woman? I don't know the gender of the car jacking victim. I'm hearing this started as a burglary. Can you talk at all about what led up to this? So there are a lot of different aspects of this. The scene is kind of spread out in multiple areas. There was a burglary call in the 3,700 block of Grove. Officers were responding to that when two of them made contact with the suspects in the 3,400 block of Irving. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know the details about how the burglary call was placed. The officer that was shot was shot in the foot. So I believe the doctors gave an update on the officer's condition over at the hospital. But she was shot in the foot and so... What are you guys working to do here now? Obviously we've seen crime scene out. We've got the white tent here. What's the focus right now? Well, there are a number of different areas that scenes that will need to be processed. There was a scene of car jacking. There was the first scene at Mon Creek in Lowell where there was an exchange of gunfire between the suspect and officers where the female officer was hit. As well as where the vehicle came to rest and the suspect was struck here. The female officer was one of the two officers who approached the suspects initially? Correct. Hijacked victim? Did she flee the car? Yeah, I don't have details about how the car jacking occurred. The car jacking did happen. The victim of the car jacking was not injured. But that vehicle was... officers pursued the suspect in that vehicle to the location here in the 3,500 block of Lowell where it appears he lost control and officers stopped it. So it's fortunate that officers were chasing this guy and during the hijacking they were relatively close to stopping him? Definitely, definitely. Officers in their vehicles were able to catch up to the car jack vehicle relatively quickly. I don't know the exact time frame, but a pursuit was authorized. And again, the suspect lost control of that vehicle in the 3,500 block of Lowell where the situation ended. It appears he did lose control. Yes, and then officers stopped the vehicle there. Did officers ram the vehicle? We heard some reports from witnesses. It's unclear right now whether a pit maneuver was used or whether the suspect lost control of the vehicle. But in either case, the suspect vehicle came to an arrest up against the curb where two Denver police cars then stopped it. The shots were exchanged. That's correct. Can you explain that? But the shots being exchanged, what happened? So when the suspect in the car jacked vehicle lost control here in the 3,500 block of Lowell, shots were exchanged between the suspect and two officers and the suspect was hit and was pronounced deceased here at the scene. How many officers were in that fight? So two officers discharged their weapons at Monkreath and Lowell where the one officer was shot. Two officers discharged their weapons here at 35th and Lowell. So four officers all together. I'm just trying to determine that exactly when the officers fired. So again, there are a lot of different scenes here. A lot of different officers involved. And so we'll need to conduct interviews of the officers to determine exactly how many were involved and what capacity. Do you know what type of weapon the suspect was firing? I don't. And that suspect was alone when the suspect hijacked the car? Correct. There were two suspects. The first one was taken into custody initially. And then the one suspect is... The person whose car was hijacked, were they alone in the car as well? I don't know that. Who both of the suspects armed? I don't know if the second suspect was armed. They were taken into custody before the other suspect took off on foot. Can you just talk about how hard it is to get a call like this, to hear something like this? Obviously it could have been worse but just to respond to stuff like this. Right. And it wasn't too long ago that we actually responded to a similar situation. So yeah, I mean when something like this happens, it definitely hits home. And officers do a really dangerous job and unfortunately sometimes they actually do find themselves in imminent harm. Do we know if that initial call on the first burglary was from a neighborhood watch? Was that a call to 911 from a resident? Yeah, I don't know how the initial burglary call came in. For clarification, you have two cars on the street. The white car was the suspect's car that he eventually ended up in, right? The suspect vehicle is a silver, accurate sedan. How about the blue car behind it? That's a DPD vehicle. It sounds like people couldn't just to confirm. Did you find a weapon? Can you confirm that either the suspect shot back? The suspect, yes. One of the suspects was armed and exchanged gunfire with police in two different locations. Striking, yes. That'll be part of the investigation. So I'll go through it again. Two suspects, one was taken into custody upon initial contact. So then we have one suspect who is at large, lead police on a foot chase, at which time there was an exchange of gunfire. One of our officers was hit in the foot. That suspect continued on to car jack a vehicle, a pursuit ensued. The vehicle was stopped in the 3,500 block of Lowell where shots again were exchanged with police and the suspect was struck and was pronounced deceased. Thanks guys. Just one last question to honey officers who exchanged fire with all side arms if they have any other... Yeah, I don't know the types of weapons that were used either by the suspect or the officers at this time.