Officers recount man shooting at them from fire truck

A man has been sentenced to more than 220 years in prison after he shot at officers and bystanders from the top of a fire truck in Northern Colorado. Damian Jackson was sentenced in Larimer County Court on Tuesday, nearly two years after he opened fire at the AmericInn in Windsor.

Jackson was staying as a guest in the hotel, located near I-25, in January of 2024. Security video obtained by CBS News Colorado showed him walking out of his hotel room and pulling the fire alarm in the hotel before returning to his room. He later returned to the hallway of the hotel wearing two bulletproof vests and carrying three guns.

Firefighters were first on scene as Windsor police officers responded non-emergent.

“The scene was kind of chaotic,” said Siobhan McTighe, sergeant with WPD…

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