A gunman on Monday shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, in a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at several locations and ended with police killing the suspect, authorities said.
Investigators were yet to determine a motive for the rampage, which began at about 5pm, when the gunman shot and killed two women and wounded a man in an area near downtown, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen told a news briefing.
The suspect then fled in a vehicle and fatally shot a man in east Denver’s Cheesman Park neighborhood, before opening fire again in a west Denver community where no one was hit, Pazen said.
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The suspect twice exchanged gunfire from his vehicle with Denver officers who were pursuing him, disabling a police cruiser, Pazen said.
From there, the gunman drove into the neighboring city of Lakewood, where he shot and killed a fourth person inside an unspecified business, Lakewood Police spokesman John Romero said.
The gunman fled from Lakewood police when they attempted to pull him over and engaged in a running gun battle with officers before fleeing on foot and entering a hotel, where he shot and wounded a clerk, Romero said.
He then shot at police officers again, wounding one of them, before police shot him dead, Romero told reporters.
Authorities did not publicly identify the suspect and said that circumstances leading to the shooting remained under investigation.
The conditions of the wounded officer and civilians were not immediately known, Romero said.
Anne Wilson, a shopper who was inside a cellular phone store in Lakewood when gunfire erupted nearby, told a Denver-based NBC-affiliate TV station that she heard “seven or eight gunshots, and then like another set of maybe five more.”
Wilson said that she and other customers were quickly ushered by store employees into a back room behind security gates until the danger had passed.
“It is scary, scary times we live in,” she said.
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