AURORA, Colo. — Aurora, Colorado police fatally shot a male robbery suspect they said threatened them with a gun following a vehicle chase that ended by Denver International Airport on Saturday, authorities said at a news conference.
Denver's chief of police, Ron Thomas, said two male suspects robbed a 7-Eleven store in Aurora around 2 a.m. Saturday morning before fleeing the scene in a small black SUV.
"We understand that a police pursuit, high-speed pursuits are inherently dangerous," Thomas told reporters on Saturday."And so, we want to end those as quickly as we possibly can when it's safe to do so. I think those officers believed that this remote location was a safe location in order to perform that maneuver."
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