Residents are urged to avoid the area.
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“They’re hiding right behind a barricade with their shields”, Wolfe said of responding police.
According a message on Twitter from the Colorado Springs Fire Department, the shooter was engaged near the clinic at 3480 Centennial Boulevard.
Photos taken by Kody Fisher, a reporter with CNN affiliate KXRM, showed an ambulance and, in another picture.at least two police officers crouched behind a patrol vehicle an ambulance at one intersection.
The shooter was described as a gunman in a long coat with a hunting-type hat.
A nearby shopping center has been put on lockdown.
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Colorado Springs, about 70 miles south of Denver, was the scene of a mass shooting on October 31 in which a gunman killed three people near downtown before dying in a shootout with police.
This is the second active shooter situation in Colorado Springs in a month.
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Police Lt. Catherine Buckley said officers were deployed on Friday and the situation has not been stabilised.
