Shooting

Five bystanders were injured when officers shot and wounded a man who allegedly pointed a gun at them in a busy area of Denver early Sunday, police said.

A gunman who went on a shooting rampage in several locations around the Denver area, killing five people and wounding two, targeted his victims based on previous personal and business dealings, authorities said.

Six teenagers went to the hospital after a shooting in a park near a high school in suburban Denver on Monday, police said. The suspect in the shooting near Aurora Central High School left the scene and has not been identified, Aurora police said in a tweet.

The Times-Call reports the postal worker, whose name has not been released, was shot in front of a group of neighborhood mailboxes in southwest Longmont on Wednesday afternoon.

Johnny Hurley was hailed by police as a hero for shooting and killing a gunman they say had killed one officer and expressed hatred for police in a Denver suburb. But when another officer rushed in to respond and saw Hurley holding the suspect’s AR-15, he shot Hurley, killing him, police revealed Friday.

Arvada Police Officer Gordon Beesley “was targeted because he was wearing an Arvada police uniform and a badge,” police Chief Link Strate said at a news conference.

A gunman is believed to have shot and killed an officer and another person in a shopping district in Arvada Monday before being fatally shot by police, authorities said.

After an intensive search, Dutch police have arrested a man they call the main suspect in a shooting on a tram in the Netherlands.

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[Updated 11/2/17, 8:45 a.m.] Two men and a woman are dead following a shooting at a Walmart in Thornton Wednesday night. Colorado authorities have…