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According to police, the woman was shot on June 16 when she advanced toward officers with a large knife.
DENVER — Denver Police are holding a briefing Tuesday afternoon to provide additional information about the fatal shooting of a woman by officers earlier this month.
Police are set to discuss the shooting at 1 p.m. 9NEWS will livestream the news conference in the video player above and on the free 9NEWS+ app on Roku and Fire TV.
Three officers fired their weapons at the woman on June 16 near North Broadway and Lawrence Street in Denver. Officers were initially called there at about 11:45 a.m. that morning for a report about a woman standing in the busy intersection with a knife.
Minutes later, officers arrived to find the woman still in the road carrying what they called a “very large, hunting-style knife.”
Denver’s Police Chief said previously that the officers gave the woman commands which she refused to follow. He said officers also deployed their tasers before discharging their weapons.
On Tuesday, police released two roughly one-minute long clips of body camera footage. In it, an officer is heard telling the woman to put her hands on her head. She does not do that, and instead, the video shows her appearing to pull out the large knife from her pocket or bag. She then begins advancing toward two officers who both have their Tasers out.
They appear to shoot the Tasers but drop them to the ground and grab their guns as the woman continues to advance. When the shooting occurs, the woman appears to be about a car length away from an officer still holding the large knife out in front of her.
Denver Police said three officers fired their weapons and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the investigation into the shooting will be conducted by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Colorado State Patrol, and DPD. All of it will be under the oversight of the office of the independent monitor, according to Thomas.
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