WASHINGTON: A sheriff’s deputy was killed and seven other people, including five deputies, were wounded Sunday in what police called a “domestic disturbance” in a residential suburb near Denver, Colorado.
The lone suspect was “shot & believed to be dead” after the standoff at the Copper Canyon apartment complex in Highlands Ranch, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Denver, the Douglas County sheriff’s office tweeted. Details of the incident were not immediately clear.
The wounded were taken to two area hospitals, at least three of them with noncritical injuries, the Denver Post reported.
Deputies had responded to an early-morning call of a disturbance when shots were fired from the building. Police quickly dispatched a heavily armed SWAT team as well as a bomb-squad truck, though there was no immediate word of any explosives being found.
Police from five jurisdictions, including Colorado state police, were placed on alert.
As the incident unfurled, the sheriff’s office advised local residents to take cover in place and stay away from windows.
The toll among deputies Sunday appeared to be one of the highest in a police-involved shooting since five officers in Dallas, Texas were shot to death and several others injured in July 2016 by a man angered by police shootings of black men.
The area near Sunday’s shooting has been scarred by dramatic mass shootings in recent years, including the Columbine school shooting in 1999, which left 15 people dead, and the 2012 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora that claimed 12 lives. Both are within a half-hour’s drive of Highlands Park.
Deputy killed, five wounded in ‘domestic’ shooting in Colorado
Deputy killed, five wounded in ‘domestic’ shooting in Colorado
Top US defense official hails ‘model ally’ in South Korea talks
SِEOUL: The Pentagon’s number three official hailed South Korea as a “model ally” as he met with local counterparts in Seoul on Monday, days after Washington’s new defense strategy called for reduced support for partners overseas.
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby arrived in South Korea on Monday and is seen as a key proponent of President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.
That policy — detailed in Washington’s 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) released last week — calls for the United States to prioritize deterring China and for long-standing US allies to take “primary responsibility” for their own defense.
Arriving in Seoul on his first overseas trip as the Pentagon’s number three official, Colby in a post on X called South Korea a “model ally.”
And he praised President Lee Jae Myung’s pledge to spend 3.5 percent of the country’s GDP on the military.
That decision, he told a forum, “reflects a clear-eyed and sage understanding of how to address the security environment that we all face and how to put our storied and historic alliance on sound footing for the long haul,” according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
“Such adaptation, such clear-eyed realism about the situation that we face and the need for greater balance in the sharing of burdens, will ensure that deterrence remains credible, sustainable and resilient in this changing world,” he added, according to the agency.
Colby also met Monday with South Korea’s defense and foreign ministers, who touted Seoul’s development of nuclear-powered attack submarines as proof the country was taking more responsibility for its defense.
Details remain murky on where the nuclear submarines will be built, however.
South Korea’s leader said last month it would be “extremely difficult” for them to be built outside the country.
But Trump has insisted they will be built in the United States.
Longstanding treaty allies, ties between the United States and South Korea were forged in the bloodshed of the Korean War.
Washington still stations 28,500 troops in South Korea as a deterrent against the nuclear-armed North.
