Colorado deputy, suspect killed, four
others wounded
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[February 06, 2018]
(Reuters) - A Colorado sheriff's
deputy and a suspect were killed and four others, including three law
enforcement officers, were wounded on Monday in a shooting that sprang
from an auto theft investigation, officials said.
Officers from three Colorado agencies investigating an auto theft were
confronted by a man at an apartment complex in Colorado Springs about 4
p.m., Colorado Springs Police Chief Pete Carey said at a press
conference. A civilian was among the injured, he said.
Witnesses told KRDO-TV, an ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs, that
around 15 shots were fired, but that was not confirmed by law
enforcement officials.
A deputy from the El Paso County Sheriff's Department, Micah Flick, 34,
was killed, Sheriff Bill Elder said at the press conference. Elder said
that Monday was the 11th anniversary of Flick's hiring at the sheriff's
department. He has a wife and seven-year-old twins.
Carey said one officer of the Colorado Springs Police Department was in
surgery on Monday night and in stable condition.
Flick is the third Colorado sheriff's deputy killed in the past five
weeks.
Last month, a 22-year-old man was charged with the murder of Adams
County Deputy Sheriff Heath Gumm, 31, who was gunned down after he and
other deputies responded to reports of an assault near the city of
Thornton, about 10 miles north of Denver.
That followed a New Year’s Eve standoff near Denver that led the death
of a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy in a suburb where four other
deputies and two civilians were also shot.
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Deputy Micah Flick, who was shot and killed in the line of duty,
appears in a handout photo provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's
Office in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S. February 5, 2018. El Paso
County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
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The nonprofit National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said
that 128 law enforcement officers were killed on the job in 2017.
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(Reporting by Bernie Woodall in Fort Lauderdale and Chris Kenning in
Chicago)
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