A weekend of violence in the Commerce City suburb of Denver resulted in the deaths of four men and the hospitalization of a woman suffering gunshot wounds. Police stated on Sunday that a person of interest in one of the instances was later discovered dead from a self-inflicted gunshot.
During the course of two different altercations on Sunday in the city of Aurora, another person in the Denver region was shot and killed, and three more people were injured.
A series of weekend shootings and stabbings in Denver resulted in one fatality and six injuries, according to authorities.
“We average maybe 5 or 6 homicides a year,” she stated. “We’re now talking about four homicides and a person in critical condition in 39 hours … The fact that the crimes are not related is even more baffling, really.”
The shootings’ possible causes were kept a secret.
The first occurred on Friday night in a Commerce City 7-Eleven convenience store parking lot. After the man and the woman were shot, the man passed away. As of Sunday morning, the woman was still in critical condition at the hospital, according to Small.
A man who was operating a truck involved in the shooting eluded officers when they attempted to speak with him later; on Sunday morning, he was discovered dead by suicide.
A guy was shot and killed on Saturday night in the parking lot of a Commerce City public park featuring a swimming pool. A person was placed under arrest, but Small would not provide more information.
Later on in the evening, the gunshot tracking system in Commerce City alerted authorities to gunfire during a gunfight. Authorities say that the cops came into a stolen car that had three occupants who had escaped and crashed later. Inside the car, a man passenger with a gunshot wound was discovered dead.
Following the collision, the driver and a second passenger suffered injuries and were hospitalized. A man who had been shot and killed was discovered in a home’s yard by officers who had returned to the scene of the gunfight, according to Small.
She claimed it was thought that the victims and others involved in that case were minors.
According to Small, there was no known connection between the shootings that occurred in the residential neighborhood, the park, and the convenience store.
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She declined to provide any information, stating that inquiries were still ongoing.
Around two in the morning, according to authorities, a nightclub parking lot saw the deadly gunfire in Aurora. Not all the deceased’s details were made public right away.
According to authorities, a second victim, a 34-year-old guy, was shot several times but managed to get to the hospital on his own and was anticipated to live. There had been no arrests.
A guy was hospitalized with potentially fatal injuries following a shooting at an Aurora housing complex about the same time, according to police. According to investigators, there was a chance for the second man who was stabbed to survive.
