AURORA, Colo. — Aurora Police said officers exchanged gunfire with a man on Thursday afternoon, and the man later died at a hospital.
Police posted just before 3 p.m. that the shooting happened in the 11900 block of East 16th Avenue. That's near the intersection with Oswego Street, just west of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Officers initially responded to a community radio call around 1:30 p.m. reporting a fight in a parking lot in the area when the shooting took place. Police said they received multiple reports of people fighting and at least one person with an AR-style rifle.
Two officers found someone matching the description of the armed person and ordered him to drop the weapon. Gunfire was exchanged, and the man was hit, police said. It wasn't clear whether one or both officers shot the man.
The man was taken to a hospital where he died. No officers were shot, a police spokesperson said.
The 17th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team is investigating the shooting.
The man killed in the shooting will be identified by the coroner's office.