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Police shooting being investigated
Nov 24th
The Boulder County Investigation Team is investigating a fatal shooting after a Boulder police officer shot a suspect during a disturbance in an apartment building at 3009 Madison St. earlier today.
Boulder officers responded to a call at 12:30 p.m. from a neighbor who reported that a man, armed with a knife and a machete, was making threatening remarks and stabbing a post outside his apartment. When officers arrived, no one was outside. They knocked on the door of the apartment where the suspect lives. When they got no response, they forced the door open. A male suspect jumped out from near the doorway and came toward the first responding officer with a knife in each of his hands. Preliminary reports are that the officer ordered him to get down. When the suspect did not, the officer fired his rifle twice.
The suspect was transported to Boulder Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The officer, a 14-year veteran of the Boulder Police Department, was uninjured. He will be placed on administrative leave with pay, pursuant to departmental policy in these types of incidents. Several other officers witnessed the shooting.
Neither the suspect nor the officer is being identified at this time, as officers are working to notify their families.
The Boulder County Investigation Team is staffed by investigators from a variety of Boulder County law enforcement agencies. The team is responsible for conducting unbiased, objective investigations in cases when officers use deadly force or other incidents involving in-custody deaths.
Officer-involved shootings are unusual in Boulder. The last incident of this type involving Boulder police was in 2008 when a SWAT officer shot and killed a man who said he was wearing a bomb and threatened to detonate it inside Boulder Community Hospital.
Additional information will be released as it becomes available.
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Boulder police: Conoco clerk robbed at gunpoint
Nov 21st
Police are looking for a male suspect associated with an attempted armed robbery that occurred at the Conoco Gas Station, 3375 28th Street at 2:41 a.m. yesterday morning, Nov. 20, 2013.
A clerk reported the male entered the store armed with a small silver semi-automatic style handgun, placed the muzzle of the gun at the clerk’s head and demanded cash. The victim believes the suspect was then startled by a car approaching the gas station which prompted him to exit the store.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male who spoke with an accent, black eyes, between 5 feet 6 and 5 feet 8 inches tall and approximately 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a black ski mask with a black handkerchief covering his nose and mouth. The suspect’s photo and a video of the robbery are attached. The case number is 13-15580.
Anyone with information about this case may contact Detective Kurt Foster 303-441-4329. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted through the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
Do you know this robber?
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Police: More info on suspects in abduction
Nov 20th
VICTIM MAY HAVE BEEN A STREET PERSON
Police have additional information on the alleged abduction at CircleK last night. The driver of the van is described as a while male with a beard. Male number two is a short Hispanic male, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 30-years-old, wearing a dark jacket with the collar folded up, dark blue jeans and white New Balance tennis shoes. The female is described as approximately 35-years-old with curly blonde/brown hair, very skinny, wearing a baby blue hooded winter coat, blue jeans and carrying a tan purse with very large buckles. Witnesses described her as a possible street person. The van is older but in very good condition with tinted windows. The middle seat has been removed and the back seat remains in place. A photo of a similar van is attached.
A similar looking van to the one used in the suspected abduction
Anyone with direct information about this incident is urged to call the Boulder Police Department’s tip line at 303-441-1974 or police dispatch 24-hours-a-day at 303-441-3333.
The case number is 13-15574.
Anyone with information about this case may call the tip line at 303-441-1974. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted through the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
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