AURORA, Colo. — A man who was armed with a “assault-style” weapon was shot and killed by police in Aurora Thursday after officers responded to a report of a fight at a parking lot west of Colorado Children’s Hospital.
Police responded to a parking lot near the intersection of E. 16th Ave. and Oswego St. just before 2 p.m. on a report of a fight. At the scene, officers found that a man who was involved in the fight was armed with what police described as an “assault-style long gun.”
In a post on X , formerly Twitter, APD said the man was struck by gunfire, but did not say whether the man had pointed the gun at officers or at someone else before he was shot…