A standoff ended Friday morning as a police dog bit a shooting suspect in Denver. A second suspect remains at-large.
Aurora Police Sgt. Chris Amsler said the standoff came to an end around 7:20 a.m. when police entered a home in the 15500 block of E. Olmsted Place. The suspect holed up inside failed to comply with police and that’s when the police dog bit him, Amsler said.
The suspect was taken from the home on a gurney around 7:30 a.m. and was briefly treated at the scene before being taken to a local hospital.
No shots were fired as the standoff ended.
Police identified the suspect Friday afternoon as 23-year-old Jalontee Auju Wilson-Burnett. After release from the hospital, Wilson-Burnett was taken to the Arapahoe County Jail and booked on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted assault, and felony menacing. Additional charges are possible.
Aurora police said the incident started Thursday night when two men fired shots at a vehicle near East Mississippi Avenue and South Idalia Street around 11 p.m. No one was hurt in the shooting.
Amsler said two officers on routine patrol heard the shots and responded to the area. When they got there, a woman driving a car told them she and a passenger in her car were shot at “multiple times” by two men, one of whom she knew.
Amsler described the situation as “domestic,” but the relationship between the woman and one of the suspects was unclear.
The woman who reported being shot at identified one of the men and he was tracked to the home on East Olmsted Place.
Denver police went to the home, which is in the city and county of Denver, and ordered everyone out. A woman and two children came out of the home, and the woman told police the suspect was inside, Amsler said.
The suspect then barricaded himself inside, refused to come out, and the standoff began.
A second suspect remains at large. He’s described as a black man about 5-foot, 8-inches tall with a slender build and braids in his hair. He was last seen wearing a grey and white T-shirt.
Police, using a warrant, searched the home Friday for additional evidence.
