A Colorado State Patrol trooper and Adams County sheriff’s deputy shot a man at a Denver gas station on Tuesday morning who was suspected of stealing a construction truck.
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Officers from a metro Denver auto theft task force started tracking the barricade truck used in road construction projects after someone stole it in east Adams County around 9 a.m., state patrol Chief Matthew Packard said in a briefing.
Police tracked the truck to a gas station at 620 Santa Fe Drive in Denver and the 35-year-old man driving the truck was walking into the store at 11 a.m. when officers confronted him.
“As they began to converge on the suspect, shots were fired,” Packard said.
Investigators believe the man was armed, but it’s still unknown why officers started shooting, Packard said.
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Police shot the man multiple times, and he was taken to Denver Health and is in stable condition, Packard said. No officers were injured in the shooting.
Task force members usually wear plain clothes but are required by protocol to wear something identifying them as police when contacting a suspect, Packard said. It’s not clear what the officers were wearing at the time of the shooting.
The Denver Police Department and Colorado Bureau of Investigation are investigating the shooting, Packard said.
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