Two people are dead, one is in custody and a fourth is on the run after an early morning shooting at a Denver 7-Eleven, police said.
Just after midnight on Monday morning, two groups arrived at a 7-Eleven gas station on the corner of East 35th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Denver police chief Ron Thomas said in a briefing.
What started as an argument and “verbal altercation” on the edge of the city’s Clayton and Park Hill neighborhoods quickly escalated into a gunfight between the two groups, he said.
A Denver police officer in the area heard the shots, responded to the gas station and saw at least one suspect with a gun, Thomas said. That man shot at the officer, who returned fire and chased him.
The suspect escaped and Thomas said police don’t know if the officer injured him. Officers are searching for a 5-foot-6-inch to 6-foot Hispanic man wearing a black hoodie and red pants, he said.
A second unidentified suspect was taken into custody in connection to the two shooting deaths, Thomas said.
This is a developing story and may be updated.
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