COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – New details released in a Fountain robbery that ended with Colorado Springs police officers shooting the suspect show the note handed to employees and claimed the suspect had a gun and a bomb.
CSPD says that the suspect involved in this investigation is identified as 31-year-old Brenden Burningham. He has been charged with aggravated robbery with a real or simulated weapon.
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The note allegedly handed to employees that day says “I have a gun and a bomb stay calm and everything will be okay.”
The arrest affidavit alleges on the morning of Sept. 14 Burningham walked into a Fountain Walgreens and threatened to kill people. He also demanded buprenorphine a drug commonly used to treat opioid addiction.
Walgreens employees told police they feared for their life and gave Burningham what he asked for.
The suspected robber then left the pharmacy and two police officers confronted him.