UPDATE: Denver police on Wednesday released video footage of the two separate incidents on the same day last week in which officers were shot and injured. Both officers were fired upon by suspects and both officers returned fire, officials said.
Both officers were fired upon by suspects and both officers returned fire, officials said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon atPolice Chief Ron Thomas, who has been with the department for 34 years, said he couldn’t recall two officers being shot separately on the same day.
Both videos — one from a surveillance camera, the other from an officer’s body-worn camera — show police exchanging gunfire with suspects.The shootings happened on June 7, the first about 4 a.m. outside the front door of a Quality Inn, near the intersection of Speer Boulevard and North Zuni Street, where an officer sitting in a marked patrol vehicle wasThe video shows the suspect, identified Wednesday as Nicholas Lendrum, 35, walk in front of the patrol vehicle and enter the hotel.
Lendrum and the officer, who was not identified Wednesday, were taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where Lendrum died. The officer, because of his vest, suffered bruises. He was treated and released.
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