O cer-involved shooting near Richmond Hill area of Conifer

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Je co sheri ’s deputies shot and killed a man in the Richmond Hill area of Conifer. e Sheri ’s O ce claims the man pointed a shotgun at deputies and red.

Deputies were dispatched at about 10 a.m. June 7 to the 13000 block

HAPPENINGS of Pine Country Lane on a welfare check, the Sheri ’s O ce said. A person had told dispatchers an adult male was despondent and threatening suicide. ey found a man with a shotgun threatening to kill himself, the Sheri ’s O ce said. For nearly two

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Deputies heard a single shot and began searching for the shooter.

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Camp Comfort Weekend hours, deputies worked to negotiate a surrender of his weapon. SWAT negotiators were deployed to assist.

At one point, the man placed the shotgun on the ground, at which time deputies red less-than-lethal shots, hitting him twice, in an e ort to resolve the stando , the Sheri ’s O ce said, but the man picked up the shotgun, pointed it at deputies

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Two deputies returned re, striking and killing the man. e Sheri ’s O ce has not released the man’s name pending noti cation of next of kin. e deputies were not injured.

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