Longmont Police officer shoots man in gun battle near shopping center

[Gman]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...hopping-center

LONGMONT, Colo. - A Longmont Police officer pulling over a man driving without his headlights Wednesday morning suddenly ended up in a shootout.

Longmont Police said the officer pulled the driver over at the Harvest Junction North Shopping Center on Ken Pratt Boulevard around 2:15 a.m.

"Immediately after stopping, the suspect exited his vehicle, advanced on the officer and began firing multiple rounds at the officer with an AR15-style rifle," police said in a news release.

The officer said he got out of his car and returned fire.

The officer was not hurt, but the suspect was hit at least three times.

Police said the suspect is a 28-year-old man from Longmont, but they did not release the man's name. He is in critical condition, police said.

The Longmont officer, per city policy, is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation by the Boulder County Investigations Team and the Longmont Police Department.

[n8tive97]

What??? Wait??? I'm confused, all this anti 2nd Amendment Laws Kolorado passed was to prevent stuff like this! I don't feel safe anymore.

[hurley842002]

What??? Wait??? I'm confused, all this anti 2nd Amendment Laws Kolorado passed was to prevent stuff like this! I don't feel safe anymore.

They were passed, but until July 1 these common sense gun measures won't have any effect. After July 1 we should see an immediate drop in crime rate, and incidents like these will cease......

[Boadie30]

This is probably a hoax anyway, done to remind us that we still have a little ways to go until were safe.

[blacklabel]

Hey guess what! There are shitty homicidal people out there.

I'm glad the cop made it out ok. That could have gone very bad very quick.

[Dingo]

Sounds like one of those gang initiations from the 90's. If the guy can't hit somebody at that distance with an AR, he probably isn't ex-military.

[mikedubs]

Actually, I heard that the guy that was shot was an innocent bystander, and the gun was walking around and shooting people by itself...


That said, if you want to commit suicide, do it at home, don't involve the cops!

[Bailey Guns]

Sounds like the officer did a good job of keeping his wits about him and returning fire. I'd like to hear some details on this. That's twice recently where guys have been stopped for traffic and got out of their cars with an AR. I think the other was near Cleveland? Both times the officers armed with handguns prevailed.

[Kraven251]

Glad the officer wasn't hurt. He was lucky that the criminal was a shitty shot. Unfortunately, this will just add more fuel to the Dems misguided ideas.

[brutal]

Sounds like the officer did a good job of keeping his wits about him and returning fire. I'd like to hear some details on this. That's twice recently where guys have been stopped for traffic and got out of their cars with an AR. I think the other was near Cleveland? Both times the officers armed with handguns prevailed.

That's not possible. An AR-15 Military style fully automatic assault rifle with a shoulder thingy that goes up is inherently more accurate, deadly, and practically kills on its own with an unlimited supply of bullets from its soon to be illegal ultra high capacity clip magazine bullet thingy.

P.S. betch those officers had more than a 10 or 15 round magazine. But hey, if you can't suppress an aggressor with 7 rounds, you have no right to be killing deer.