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Police are discussing a shooting involving officers on South Oneida Street that injured a man, and the death of another man after his arrest on North Quebec Street.
DENVER — Denver Police are giving an update on two separate incidents that occurred last week – the in-custody death of a man after he was arrested for violating a restraining order, and the shooting of a man by officers.
Speakers at the news conference scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at police headquarters include Chief Ron Thomas and Major Crimes Division Commander Matt Clark.
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The first incident took place on Sunday, Nov. 26. Police said a 43-year-old man arrested for violating a protective order suffered an “apparent medical event” that police said may have been related to narcotics and pronounced dead at Denver Health.
Officers responded to a call around 8:47 a.m. to 3737 N. Quebec St., which is a former hotel that has been converted into housing.
Police said the restraining order was related to a prior felony menacing by the suspect at the same location. The caller reported the man had removed an ankle monitor he was required to wear.
Officers arrived around 9:19 a.m. and found an ankle monitor in the alley and began looking for the suspect, who had entered a unit in the building. They found the man around 9:32 a.m. and used “a minimal amount of force (an arm control hold) to handcuff the suspect and take him into custody,” police said.
Around 10:46 a.m., police said the officer taking the man to jail realized he was experiencing a medical issue in the back seat of the patrol car.
The officer stopped the patrol car on the way to the jail and called paramedics and three other officers who were involved in the man’s arrest to the location where the car was stopped near the intersection 29th and Champa streets, according to police.
Officers removed the man from the patrol car, who was conscious and standing at first, but was “minimally responsive,” police said.
Soon after the man exited the patrol car he became unconscious and stopped breathing. Officers performed CPR and administered naloxone in case the man was having an opioid-related overdose, but police said the naloxone had no effect.
Paramedics from Denver Health arrived where the officer stopped the patrol car and took the man to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:12 p.m. The medical examiner’s office will identify him and determine how he died.
The second incident happened on Monday, Nov. 27. Police said officers shot a man who originally drew their attention because he was playing loud music from a pickup truck and removing items from the truck that he was tossing into a dumpster.
The shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 800 block of South Oneida Street near the intersection with Leetsdale Drive. The officers were in the area, returning to service from an unrelated call, when the man drew their attention, police said.
As officers approached the man, they noticed from a distance that he was carrying a gun in his waistband, police said. They spoke with the man for several minutes to try to get him to put his hands on his head so that they could safely take the gun.
The man refused to follow the officers’ orders and was shot when he made a threatening motion toward his gun, according to police.
Officers rendered aid until an ambulance arrived and took the man to a hospital. He was operated on and expected to survive.
No officers were injured.
The man does not live at the apartments but knows others who do, according to police.
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