EL PASO COUNTY, COLO. (KRDO) – The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is the investigating agency on an officer-involved shooting that occurred this past weekend in Security-Widefield.
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According to CSPD, they were notified of a shooting involving deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office (EPCSO) and officers with the Fountain Police Department (FPD) near the intersection of Security Boulevard and Crawford Avenue in Security-Widefield just before 2 a.m. Saturday morning, Jan. 27.
CSPD said a call came into the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center from an EPCSO Deputy reporting an adult male walking south on Security Boulevard with a firearm in unincorporated El Paso County just after 12:30 a.m. Deputies from the sheriff’s office and officers from the FPD responded to the scene and made contact with the suspect. They asked the man to drop the firearm but refused.