Man shot during pursuit from separate shooting

Two Denver police officers shot a man on 16th Street early Sunday morning after pursuing him from a separate shooting they suspect him in that took place just before.

The officers shot the man, who Denver Police haven’t identified, multiple times and then gave him first aid until an ambulance arrived. He is now in stable condition, Chief Ron Thomas said in a video posted to X.

Just before 2 a.m., someone reported shots fired on 16th Street between California and Stout streets. The responding officers pursued a man they suspected of being the shooter “into the vestibule of an apartment complex” on 16th Street.

“They identified that he had a gun. He did not drop that gun. He put officers in a position where they felt they were in danger,” Thomas said.

The person who was shot initially is also in stable condition, Thomas said.

— Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post

Westminster officer shoots armed man

A Westminster police officer shot and killed an armed man during a domestic violence incident in Arvada’s Lamar Heights neighborhood on Saturday morning, Arvada Police Department officials said.

Police arrived at an apartment at Willow Green Townhomes, 6989 Sheridan Blvd., at 7:11 a.m. after getting calls about a “disturbance involving an assault” and that there were multiple people, including children, and guns in the home.

Officers entered the home and found one person who was being kept against their will and safely removed two women and a child from the home, Arvada police said. The Westminster Police Department also responded to the scene and deployed a drone to help with surveillance.

Witnesses told police there were two men still inside who were believed to be armed, and officers saw one man crawl out of a window onto the roof while armed and then go back inside.

At 8:03 a.m., the man came back onto the roof and got a gun, which is when a Westminster officer shot the man and he fell on the roof.

The Jefferson County SWAT Team searched the apartment and did not find anyone else inside. The man was pronounced dead at 11 a.m., and investigators found two guns near his body and another gun in the apartment.

— Katie Langford, The Denver Post

Second person in go-kart dies from Saturday crash

Two people are dead after a go-kart and a car collided late Saturday night in southwest Denver, police said.

The fatal crash happened just after 11:20 p.m. Saturday near West Evans Avenue and South Federal Boulevard.

One person died Saturday at the scene of the crash, and the second later died at the hospital, according to a Monday afternoon update from the Denver Police Department. The two victims were both in the go-kart, an unidentified spokesperson for the police department said.

No one had been cited in the crash as of Monday.

— Lauren Penington, The Denver Post

Denver resident pleads guilty in 2025 killing

A 25-year-old Denver resident faces up to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty last week to murder in a shooting death in Denver’s Jefferson Park neighborhood last year.

Rafael Acosta-Hernandez pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of second-degree murder, Denver District Attorney officials announced in a post on X. His sentencing has been scheduled for July 10.

On March 6, 2025, Acosta shot and killed 25-year-old Leonel Silva-Perez in the 2600 block of North Zuni Street, DA officials said. —Bruce Finley, The Denver Post