DENVER — As the investigation continues into a police shooting in early August in downtown Denver, the police department released new footage that showed police arresting the injured man as an unrelated gunfight broke out in the same parking lot.
In a press conference on Friday morning, the Denver Police Department (DPD) explained how the shooting unfolded in the early hours of Aug. 3.
DPD Commander Matt Clark said uniformed officers were doing routine patrols around 2 a.m. and had just finished addressing a fight around 20th Street and Blake Street when they heard a gunshot. Multiple officers responded to Market Street, where they believed it had come from. A passerby alerted an officer that a man in a white Audi had a firearm in his possession, and officers quickly found the man adjacent to the driver’s door of the car near 19th and Market streets, Clark said.
As officers approached the man — who has only been identified …