‘Active Shooter’ at Planned Parenthood in Colorado
At least 3 officers injured, gunman barricaded in building
(Gazette.com) – An active shooter was reported Friday near Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.
The office is at 3480 Centennial Blvd.
Colorado Springs police, El Paso County Sheriff’s Office and Colorado State Patrol officers are responding to the scene.
1:43 p.m. Police say they do not know the connection to Planned Parenthood, but that is where the 911 call came from. Police do not know the number of shooters, the containment of the shooters, or the number of victims. Police are not evacuating neighborhoods to the north of the scene, but they are asking residents to stay inside and to avoid the area. There are still people inside the nearby businesses, and police do not know if there are any hostage situations.
Between Colorado Springs Police Department, El Paso Sheriff’s Office and State Patrol, “we are using all of our resources,” said spokeswoman and Lt. Catherine Buckley. Officers do not know the type of weapon involved, except there is a rifle involved.
1:34: The shooting situation remains active and the shooter is not contained. Colorado Springs police says there is no connection to Planned Parenthood and shooting victims are getting treatment.
1:28 p.m.: CSPD tweeted that three officers are injured and unknown civilians are injured. Police say the situation remains unstable and to avoid the area.
1:01 p.m.: One of the victims being loaded onto an ambulance yelled.
12:54 p.m.: At least three officers are injured, as well as multiple others. There are no estimates of the number injured or whether there are fatalities.
The shooter is “contained,” according to Lt. Kirk Wilson, a Colorado Springs police spokesman. Officers are working to “extricate” an officer who is at the scene, but police could not immediately reach him.
12:52 p.m.: At least three officers have been hurt, according to a police commander on the scene.
12:47 p.m. Two patients were just transferred from a black tactical vehicle into waiting ambulance.
12:47 p.m. A tactical team is positioned near the Chase Bank on Centennial Boulevard.
12:45 p.m. Police are communicating by cell phone with three people trapped in a bathroom closet inside Planned Parenthood.
12:43 p.m.: Denise Speller, manager at a nearby haircut salon, said she heard roughly 10-20 gunshots in the span of less than five minutes. She said she saw a police cruiser and two officers outside near Chase Bank, not far from the Planned Parenthood facility. One of the officers appeared to fall to the ground and the other office knelt down to render aid, then tried to get the officer to safety behind the car, she said. Another officer told Speller to seek shelter inside the building.
“We’re still pretty freaked out,” Speller said by phone. “We can’t stop shaking. For now we’re stuck back here not knowing.”
12:38 p.m. The Mobile Command Center of the Colorado Springs Police and the Tactical Rescue unit from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office both are on scene. One officer asked colleagues to move because “we are in the line of fire.”
12:36 p.m.: Colorado Springs Police report that Centennial Boulevard is closed in both directions between Garden of the Gods Road and Fillmore Street.
12:31 p.m.: Scanner traffic indicated at least two officers were down, one near a dumpster, and another taken by ambulance to a hospital. A dispatcher said one patient was wounded at Elite Vision, located an adjacent building at 3470 Centennial Blvd. A later dispatch said at four were injured and an officer was heard requesting an ambulance. Another officer indicated wounded patients were being taken to Penrose Hospital, 2222 N. Nevada Ave.
At least one victim was taken by stretcher to an ambulance shortly after noon.
Three police officers with guns drawn were pointing their weapons in the vicinity of Planned Parenthood.
One officer said on his radio that the gunman shot out the back window of his cruiser as the officer tried to “get a look at him.” A dispatcher said the gunman wore a long coat with a “hunting-type” hat.
Police closed Centennial Boulevard in both directions and customers were locked down at a King Soopers grocery store and several nearby shops at Fillmore Street and Centennial Boulevard.
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