AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Authorities say police in the Denver suburb of Aurora have shot and killed a machete-wielding man in what may have been a hostage situation.
The Aurora Sentinel reports an officer shot the man in an apartment building Monday. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Neither the man nor the officer was immediately identified.
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Officers were responding to a report that someone may have been taken hostage, and when they arrived at the apartment they escorted a woman out.
Police say a man in the apartment ignored officers’ orders to drop the machete. Police say one officer fired a Taser and another fired a gun.
No one else was injured.
Police say the officer who shot the suspect has been on the force two years.
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Information from: The Aurora Sentinel, http://www.aurorasentinel.com/
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