What we know about Denver's latest mass shooting.
The first tweet, time-stamped at 2:19 p.m., noted that officers were"investigating a shooting in the 1400 block of Verbena. Six victims located." Less than an hour later, at 3:12 p.m., the department issued an update:"Five victims located; four transported to the hospital and one pronounced deceased." Then, at 4:31 p.m., another bulletin noted that"the victim count is six — 4 men and 2 women. One of the males was pronounced dead at the scene.
Prior to this last dispatch, Commander Matt Clark of the DPD's major-crimes unit staged a press conference. Just after 1:50 p.m., he said, Denver police had received an alert about the Verbena-Colfax area from, a tool used to"pinpoint gunshot locations in different parts of the city identified based on the high frequency of gun violence and directs officers in real time to where the gunfire occurred.
According to Clark, officers and emergency personnel from Denver Health raced to the scene and located five victims: one adult male who had already died, plus two adult males and two adult females who were still alive. Three of those victims were in critical condition, he said, and the fourth was stable and not in a life-threatening situation. After the news conference, the DPD confirmed that a sixth person, an adult male, had also been hospitalized with less serious wounds.
Investigators, assisted by witnesses on the scene, soon determined that three individuals in a vehicle traveling northbound on Verbena stopped at Colfax, close to where a group had congregated on a curb."They were just standing on the sidewalk," Clark stressed."There was no apparent conflict." Nonetheless, the trio in the car exited and opened fire, squeezing off multiple shots before climbing back into the vehicle and heading eastbound on Colfax.
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