An active shooter on the loose at an apartment complex in Colorado has been apprehended following a shootout with police.
The male suspect and one female hostage were taken to a local hospital before 10.30am MDT with the shooter place in custody.
Their conditions and the nature of their injuries are not known at this time.
Police were called to a disturbance at the Arista Flats in Broomfield, northwest of Denver, at 6.34am on Thursday.
Upon arrival they heard ‘a male making threats’ and heard gunshots which were fired at surrounding units and into the parking lot.
An active shooter on the loose at an apartment complex in Colorado has been apprehended.
Police were called to the Arista Flats in Broomfield on Thursday
Limited evacuations were staged and other residents were told to shelter in place and avoid the area, which has now been designated as secure.
Cops said there was an exchange of gunfire as they forced entry into a home to detain the suspect.
The relationship between him and the victim has not been made public at this stage.
A SWAT team and crisis negotiators were drafted in to help deal with the emergency.
‘The surrounding area is NOT SAFE,’ Broomfield Police said in a statement. ‘Limited evacuations have been done. Everyone else please avoid the area.’
The police also confirmed that nearby Jefferson Academy was placed ‘on secure’.
‘When a building is on secure it is business as usual inside the school,’ the statement said. The doors are locked, no one is coming or going.’
Broomfield is located 16 miles away from Denver, on the opposite side of the city to Aurora, where a migrant gang took over an apartment complex.
The suspect was taken into custody and one victim was transported to the hospital in an unknown condition
SWAT teams and negotiators were drafted in to deal with the situation
One resident told CBS she was walking her dog when she heard a volley of shots.
‘Took the dog out as usual, just before 8 o’clock out of my patio and as soon as I put her down on the grass, I heard, “Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!”‘ the resident said.
‘There was a kid walking to the school bus, and there’s a rock over there in the park and as soon as we heard those shots, he jumped behind the rock and he told me to ‘get in, get in, get in!”
‘I grabbed the dog and ran back inside and I heard all these cops coming and I heard more shots being fired and I was just really scared because I knew that it was gunshots at that point.’
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