COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — The use of deadly force has been ruled justified in a shooting involving police that left a man dead in Colorado Springs over the summer.
It happened off Pikes Peak Avenue near South Tejon Street in Downtown Colorado Springs on July 5.
The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) received a call from a nightclub in the area saying a man, later identified as 26-year-old Alex Martinez-Sarmiento, was carrying a rifle and screaming at people.
Investigators say when officers told Martinez-Sarmiento to put his hands up, he took off running while reaching towards his waistband. One officer fired three times, hitting him.
Martinez-Sarmiento was pronouned dead at the scene.
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