Radio traffic from Broadcastify and other sources recorded during today’s (Saturday) active shooter incident in Colorado Springs, Colorado has been posted on the Internet and social media.
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The dead policeman was named as Garrett Swasey, 44, a University of Colorado Colorado Springs officer who was on duty at the campus and had raced to the scene of the shooting.
The suspect – later scene in a white T-shirt handcuffed and led away by officers – first engaged in a protracted gun battle with police, but ultimately surrendered about five hours after the start of the violence.
A law enforcement official says one police officer has been killed in the shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs.
Officers scrambled to find an opportunity to kill the gunman without harming people holed up in the clinic, according to chatter from the police scanner.
The gunman has shot multiple victims including three police officers and barricaded himself inside the Planned Parenthood facility, according to the Colorado Fraternal Order of Police executive director, Mike Violette. But, many people who were earlier against the organization values showed their support during the Friday’s shooting.
“I heard a bullet go right by the door and hit something”, she said.
The suspect had exchanged gunshots with officers, police said. Buckley said the investigation, which would have to involve explosive ordinance units, would take hours, if not days.
The university’s officers are state-certified police.
Police officers who responded were fired upon, and the gunman fired at police at various times during the ensuing standoff, police said.
Abortion is among the services its clinics provide, which has made them a target in the past.
Buckley had said the shooter had been armed with some kind of “long weapon”.
One of the officers appeared to fall to the ground and the other officer knelt down to help and then tried to get the officer to safety behind a patrol auto, she said.
A gunman burst into a Planned Parenthood clinic and opened fire, launching several gunbattles and an hourslong standoff with police as patients and staff took cover under furniture and inside locked rooms. “She was calm, she was trying to hide from those people”, he said.
As late as 4 PM, Colorado Springs Police Department spokeswoman Lieutenant Catherine Buckley said law enforcement had not been in voice contact with the suspect.
Police closed Centennial Boulevard in both directions and customers were locked down at a King Soopers grocery store and several nearby shops.
This involves at least one gunman.
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Denise Speller, manager of a nearby hair salon, said she heard as many as 20 gunshots in less than five minutes.
