Early Monday morning, a campus police officer was shot and injured in Denver while attempting to apprehend a suspect who had trespassed into a vehicle. The incident occurred at approximately 1:18 a.m. on the Auraria Campus, a shared campus that includes Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Colorado Denver, located in downtown Denver.
According to campus officials, two campus officers approached a suspect who was trespassing into a vehicle. The suspect reportedly assaulted the officers and then fled the scene. Subsequently, when the officers located the suspect again, he resisted arrest, prompting the officers to deploy a taser. In response, the suspect fired multiple shots, striking one officer in the arm before fleeing once more.
