Man shot by police in Paco Sanchez Park

Denver officers arrested two men Monday night, one of whom was shot and injured while fleeing police, during a shots-fired investigation in the city’s West Colfax neighborhood.

Officers responded to reports of shots fired near Lowell Boulevard and West 13th Avenue at about 10:40 p.m. Monday, Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said in a news briefing.

He said they found multiple shell casings and began to search the area for suspects. Officers headed east into Paco Sanchez Park and, about an hour after the first shots were fired, found a group of four men.

Thomas said officers asked the men to stop, but the group of four began to run away.

One man dropped a gun and a second man pulled one out, Thomas said. That’s when an officer fired “a number of shots,” hitting the man who allegedly pulled out a gun.

Thomas said those two men were taken into custody, but investigators are still searching for the other two.

He said it’s still unclear if the group of men is connected to the original shots fired near 13th and Lowell, but investigators will be able to compare the shell casings found in the area with the guns that the men were carrying.

— Lauren Penington, The Denver Post

Woman dies in custody at the downtown Denver jail

A woman in custody at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center died Tuesday after she was found unresponsive in a housing unit, sheriff’s officials said.

The woman was found at 4:30 p.m. and was pronounced dead after a medical team tried to resuscitate her, the Denver Sheriff Department said. Her death will be investigated by the Denver Police Department, and her name and cause of death will be released by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Body likely fisherman who fell through ice, police say

The body of a 65-year-old man who likely fell through the ice while ice fishing was pulled out of the Cherry Creek Reservoir on Tuesday afternoon, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said.

Two fishermen were at the spillway in Cherry Creek State Park at around 3:10 p.m. when they spotted a cooler floating in the water about 50 feet from shore and went to retrieve it, sheriff’s office spokesperson Ginger Delgado said.

The fishermen found a man’s body holding on to the cooler when they tried to pull it out of the water and called park rangers. Ice fishing equipment was also found in the water near the man’s body, Delgado said.

— Katie Langford, The Denver Post