DENVER — A police officer fired a shot at a man wielding a knife inside a downtown Denver grocery store Wednesday evening. No one was hit by the round fired.
Denver Police (DPD) said officers were called at 6:20 p.m. to the Whole Foods located at 17th and Wewatta streets on a report of someone brandishing a knife. An officer arrived and while contacting the man, fired a shot, police said.
Officers then Tasered the man and took him into custody, according to DPD.
This incident happened roughly four hours after Denver police officers shot and injured a man near the intersection of 47th Avenue and York Street.
In that earlier shooting, police said the man had threatened people with a gun near 45th Avenue and St. Paul Street. During a briefing Wednesday afternoon, Chief Ron Thomas said the gun the man had was an Airsoft gun that looked like a real gun.
The man shot at York Street was taken to a hospital in critical condition but was expected to survive, Chief Thomas said.
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