A suspect in a shooting at an apartment complex near Denver was taken into custody Thursday and transported to a hospital along with a female victim after a four-hour standoff during which gunfire hit cars, other buildings, and apartment units, police said.
After officers negotiated with the suspect for 3 1/2 hours, they forced their way into the apartment at the Arista Flats complex in Broomfield where he was holding a woman hostage and arrested him, said Rachel Haslett, a spokeswoman for the Broomfield police department. Haslett said an officer fired his weapon inside the apartment, but she didn't say whether it struck anyone, per the AP.
"He was threatening to hurt people," said Haslett, who didn't release the suspect's name or age and didn't know what weapons he might have used. The suspect and female victim were taken to a hospital, Haslett said. The nature of their injuries weren't immediately known. Police responded to reports of gunfire at the apartment complex as people were getting ready for work in Broomfield, a mostly middle-class city of about 75,000 people roughly 15 miles northwest of Denver.
Authorities had sent out a phone alert warning residents to shelter in place or evacuate from the area. Haslett said she didn't know how many shots were fired during the standoff. "But I will tell you, they were fired sporadically throughout the process so we wouldn't hear them for a while. And then another shot would be fired. So it wasn't all at once," she told reporters. Heather Tallant said she was walking her dog outside when a bullet or projectile flew over her head and smashed into her bedroom window. "I saw it hit my window, and that was me just gone," said Tallant, who ran barefoot from the building past the police line. "I got shot at," she said, dropping to sit on the ground.
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