{"id":1164597,"date":"2021-12-28T10:05:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1164597"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:05:22","slug":"five-dead-officer-injured-in-mass-shooting-near-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-dead-officer-injured-in-mass-shooting-near-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Dead, Officer Injured In Mass Shooting Near Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffive-dead-officer-injured-in-mass-shooting-near-denver%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1164597&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A mass shooting across suburban Denver late Monday left five dead and one police officer injured, according to local reports.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6xT4ZAsG1sQ\">press conference<\/a>, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen said the suspect, who was also declared dead, participated in \u201ca series of violent incidences\u201d around Denver beginning at about 5 p.m. local time. Pazen said that there were four separate shootings resulting in three dead, and he described the killer as being on a \u201ckilling spree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in nearby Lakewood, Colorado, were notified of an active shooter less than an hour later, according to John Romero, the town\u2019s police department spokesman, after the victim had encountered police and drove to the suburb. Officers say they found a fourth victim dead when they arrived at the latest scene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More information on this evening\u2019s active shooter situation in Lakewood. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CPhSPaZWsU\">https:\/\/t.co\/CPhSPaZWsU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lakewood Police Dept. (@LakewoodPDCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LakewoodPDCO\/status\/1475685127149789187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When authorities encountered the shooter once again, he opened fire on them and fled on foot, police said. The suspect, who police described as a man, sheltered in a Hyatt hotel where he then shot a clerk, the extent of whose injuries remained unclear late Monday.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/denver-colorado-shooting-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: One Dead, Five Injured In Denver Shooting)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shooter then encountered a single officer and shot him, police said. The officer remained in surgery as of Monday night\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just ask everyone in our community for their thoughts and prayers for that agent and their family,\u201d Romero said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter then exchanged gunfire with more officers, and he was confirmed to be dead shortly after, though police did not say whether it was an officer who fired the fatal shot.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/22\/ten-dead-boulder-colorado-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: 10 Dead In Mass Shooting In Boulder, CO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials also said that a motive had yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to really dig and find out what the motivation behind this was,\u201d Pazen said.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mass shooting across suburban Denver late Monday left five dead and one police officer injured, according to local reports.In a press conference, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen said the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}