Aurora officers shoot, kill man after alleged armed confrontation

A man is dead after an Aurora police officer shot and killed him after the man allegedly produced a firearm during a confrontation with another person at a bus stop.

The shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aurora Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a news conference, at the bus stop near Colfax Avenue and Havana Street. Two officers were monitoring activity at the bus stop and noticed the man get into a confrontation with another person and produce a firearm, Acevedo said.

Once the man showed the firearm, which appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun, the officers engaged with the man. He began running away, Acevedo said, and the officers began yelling commands to drop his weapon and raise his hands.

One of the officers then fired shots and hit the man. Acevedo could not answer if the man had fired shots as well, but said no officers were injured.

“You can see the individual running away, the individual who was armed that they knew to be armed because they witnessed him produce the firearm,” Acevedo said he could see while reviewing body-worn cameras. “The officers started yelling commands to the individual to stop, put his hands up, and at one point there is a discharge.”

The man died about 30 minutes later at a hospital.

Acevedo said investigators are trying to figure out what kind of confrontation the man was in before the shooting. The other person involved in the confrontation is in custody.

Several witnesses at the scene ran away once the shooting happened, so Acevedo asked anyone with information to contact the Aurora Police Department.