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DENVER: Police in Boulder, Colorado, reported an “active shooter” at a grocery store Monday, and aerial footage broadcast live from the scene by local media showed a bloody man being escorted in handcuffs and loaded into an ambulance. .
The police Twitter alert said the incident unfolded at a King Soopers grocery store in the Table Mesa area of Boulder, a city in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 28 miles northwest of Denver.
Hours later, Boulder police issued a second tweet saying officers were responding to a report of an “armed and dangerous individual” at a separate location about 3 miles away, and that investigators were trying to determine “whether this is related to (the) King Soopers shooting. “
A man who said he was shopping inside the store with his wife told KCNC-TV that he heard three loud blows that took as gunshots and ran through the store with other customers to escape through a loading dock at the rear of the building. .
He said the apparent shots sounded like they were coming from the checkout area at the front of the store.
A video of the scene broadcast by local television station KDVR-TV showed a bearded, shirtless man in underpants being held in handcuffs, and a person on a stretcher loaded into an ambulance. The detained man appeared to have a bloody leg.
Similar images later broadcast by KCNC-TV showed the bloody man handcuffed on a stretcher and in the back of an ambulance. KCNC said no one else injured in the shooting was known to have been taken by ambulance from the scene.
A Boulder Community Health spokesperson, Rich Sheehan, said a person taken by ambulance to the hospital from the supermarket was receiving medical treatment, but Sheehan declined to describe the nature of the injuries or the patient’s condition.
Dean Schiller, who described himself as a journalist and was broadcasting live footage of the scene for a YouTube channel identified as ZFG Videography, said in interviews with local media that he heard what sounded like gunshots as he left the store. groceries.
Schiller also said he saw three alleged shooting victims, but had no information about their conditions.
A short time later, in a parking lot outside the store, Schiller said, he saw police officers surround a sport utility vehicle while ordering its occupants out.
Television news footage showed police pulling customers and workers out of the store with their hands on their heads. Aerial footage also showed a heavy police presence outside the supermarket, along with at least two ambulances.
Table Mesa is home to the hilltop laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The grocery store is located about 2 miles from the University of Colorado flagship campus.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis said on Twitter that he was monitoring the events unfolding in Boulder, adding: “My prayers go out to our fellow Colorado members in this time of sadness and pain as we learn more about the scope of the tragedy”.
The FBI said on Twitter that its agents were assisting local police in the investigation of the supermarket shooting. – Reuters
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