Police shot and killed a machete-wielding suspect inside the Champions Center at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field this morning after they say the man refused to drop his weapon.
Emergency responders were alerted around 9:15 a.m. today that a man with a machete had entered the Champions Center, an athletics and sports-medicine facility west of Folsom Street on Stadium Drive on CU’s Boulder campus.
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Police said the incident began with some kind of altercation in the parking area outside, during which “one of the people involved did brandish a sharp weapon and was menacing with it,” CU police spokesman Scott Pribble said during a morning news conference. “At some point, he went inside.”
Officers from Colorado University and Boulder police departments responded to the Champions Center and confronted the suspect.
Around 9:28 a.m., a call of “shots fired” was aired over the police scanner and officers reported the suspect was down in a stairwell inside the center.
