By Austen Erblat | CBS Colorado
A police officer in Glenwood Springs shot and killed an armed man after trying to contact him in a shopping center parking lot on Monday afternoon, Glenwood Springs Police Chief Joseph Deras said.
In a Monday news conference, Deras said two uniformed officers approached a man they had recently secured an arrest warrant for just before 1 p.m. in the parking lot of the Glenwood Meadows shopping center. When they approached him, he pulled out a gun and one of the officers fired his weapon at the man, striking him, Deras said.
“As the suspect moved toward his vehicle, the officers took up a secondary position and again engaged the suspect with gunfire. One officer was involved in that shooting exchange and the suspect was wounded and took refuge behind a vehicle,” Deras said.