Broomfield police respond to ‘active shooting’ at apartment

MORNING NEWS AT 9. >> ON SHARE, OUR 9 O'CLOCK AND WE ARE TRACKING BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. POLICE ON THE SCENE REPORTS OF AN ACTIVE SHOOTER AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN BROOMFIELD. AT ONE POINT POLICE SENDING OUT THE MESSAGE TO SHELTER IN PLACE BECAUSE THEY SAID SHOTS WERE STILL BEING FIRED NEAR THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX. GOOD TO HAVE CLOCK. I'M KIRK YUHNKE AND I'M ANDREA HENDERSON. AS KIRK MENTIONED, LOCAL RESIDENTS CURRENTLY UNDER THAT SHELTER IN PLACE AS AUTHORITIES APPARENTLY SEARCHING. >> THE AREA FOR A SUSPECT'S WE HAVE FOX THIRTY-ONE'S JIM HOOLEY LIVE THERE ON THE SCENE. SO, JIM, YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR A LITTLE BIT NOW. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? ANYTHING NEW? >> ANDREW, THIS IS THE SCENE RIGHT HERE. YOU SEE FIRST RESPONDERS DOWN HERE, NORTH METRO FIRE, SOME AMBULANCES AND OBVIOUSLY POLICE HERE IS WELL, WE THAT COVERED STATE PATROL HERE. LAFAYETTE POLICE HERE IS WELL, WESTMINSTER POLICE ALL IN ON THE SCENE TRYING TO SECURE THIS AREA, TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE IN ORDER, WENT OUT A PHONE TELLING PEOPLE TO STAY IS SECURE. STAY INSIDE. A SHELTER-IN-PLACE ORDER WENT OUT APPROXIMATELY AN HOUR OR SO. GO TO THE PEOPLE HERE. THE EVER SO PARTNERS. WHERE ALL THIS IS HAPPENING ON THE WEST SIDE OF 36 AND WHAT WOULD BE JUST NEAR WADSWORTH AVENUE AS WELL. IF YOU KNOW THIS AREA, THERE'S A BIG BUST EPPLE THAT IS HERE. WE UNDERSTAND FROM SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE ON THE GROUND, SOME OF THE RESIDENTS THAT SOME HAVE NOW BEEN EVACUATED FROM ONE OF THE BUILDINGS HERE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS AN ACTIVE SHOOTER INSIDE THE BUILDING WHEN SENATE IS A MAN. AND WE UNDERSTAND AT LEAST FROM SOME OF THE WITNESSES HERE, RESIDENTS HERE, THIS IS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED BY BROOMFIELD POLICE. WHAT UNDERSTAND THAT THAT MAN IS HOLDING A WOMAN HOSTAGE RIGHT NOW AND THREATENING TO KILL HER OR SHOES OR IF, IN FACT, POLICE TRY TO MOVE IN AND TAKE HIM OUT OF THE BUILDING. SO ONCE AGAIN, WE WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT IS NOT CONFIRMED BY BROOMFIELD POLICE THERE ON THE SCENE HERE NOW TRYING TO BRING THIS ALL TO A RESOLUTION AT THIS POINT. BUT AGAIN, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MOVED OUT OF A BUILDING, EVACUATED OUT OF THE BUILDING WHERE ALL THIS IS HAPPENING. POLICE ARE ON THE SCENE HERE. WE'VE SEEN FIRE FIRES HERE FROM OF FIRST RESPONDERS FROM NORTH METRO FIRE AS WELL WEARING BALLISTIC VEST. THAT JUST GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF HOW CONCERNED THEY ARE ABOUT THE SAFETY. ONCE AGAIN, THE SHELTER-IN-PLACE ORDER IN PLACE HERE NOW GOING MIGHT OUT ON PHONE CALLS TO PEOPLE HERE, THE AIR SO APARTMENT, SOME PEOPLE STILL MOVING ABOUT HERE FREELY. BUT PEOPLE ARE BEING TOLD TO BE EXTRA EXTRA CAREFUL BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT MORE SHOTS COULD BE FIRED AT THIS POINT. AGAIN, WE WANT TO STRESS THAT WE HAVE SEEN AND HEARD OF NO INJURIES WHATSOEVER. NO WORD ON ANYBODY BEING SHOPPERS. VERY DISTURBING NEWS THAT WE HAVE NOW FROM SOME OF THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND HERE NOT CONFIRMED BY BROOMFIELD POLICE. WHAT THIS PERSON, THE MAN WITH A GUN INSIDE ONE OF THE BUILDINGS HERE ARE THE APARTMENTS COULD BE HOLDING A WOMAN HOSTAGE ONCE AGAIN, EVERYONE US BEING ADVISED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION HERE AT THE SCENE THIS MORNING IN BROOMFIELD. I'M JIM HOOLEY FOX TO THE IT WONDER, JIM, AT THIS POINT, MAYBE IT'S MORE OF A STANDOFF SITUATION AT POLICE ARE KIND OF TRYING TO NEGOTIATE OR TALK TO THIS GUY WHO MAY HAVE A HOSTAGE. YOU CERTAINLY DON'T WANT TO RISK. >> THEIR SAFETY. HAVE YOU SEEN A LOT OF MOVEMENT BECAUSE EFFORT FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN SEE FROM BACK HERE AT CAMP AT LOOKS RELATIVELY CALM UP THERE. >> IT LOOKS FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE IN ALL OF THIS HAPPENING AROUND THE CORNER, WE'RE AROUND THE CORNER FOR THE BUILDING INVOLVED IN ALL KIRK, YOU KNOW, FOR EVERYBODY'S SAFETY, OUR SAFETY AS WELL. BUT WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF MOVEMENT, A COUPLE SWAT VEHICLES COMING IN HERE. ADDITIONAL SWAMP, VEHICLES COMING IN HERE JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES AGO AND MORE POLICE AND FIRE EQUIPMENT RESPONDING HERE AS WELL. OBVIOUSLY THE PROBABLY GOING TO THE PROCESS NOW OF TRYING TO NEGOTIATE, IF YOU WILL TALK TO THIS MAN WHO WAS INSIDE POSSIBLY HOLDING THE HOSTAGES SIDE, TRYING TO BRING SOME RESOLUTION, A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION. SO ALL THIS WE HAVE NOT HEARD ANY GUNFIRE IN LAST 30 MINUTES SINCE WE HAVE BEEN HERE, THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THAT THERE COULD STILL BE SOME ACTIVE GUNFIRE, SOME SHOOTING TAKING PLACE. WE HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING. BUT ONCE AGAIN, EVERYONE IS BEING TOLD AND POLICE ARE STRESSING TO TRY TO STAY INSIDE THE SAFE SECURED. THIS COULD STILL BE A VERY ACTIVE AND DANGEROUS SITUATION OUT HERE. BLUEFIELD. >> AND JUST QUICKLY FOR A SECOND THERE, WE SAW WHEN THEY LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE KIND OF GOING THROUGH ONE OF LIKE THE SUVS OUT THERE. HAVE YOU SEEN THEM LIKE SEARCHING THROUGH CARS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? LIKE ONE OF THE SUVS BACK THEIR COLLEGE THINK THEY WERE GOING THROUGH THE TRUCK A LITTLE BIT. >> NO, I'VE NOT SEEN ANY OF THAT. INJURE. FORGIVE ME. WE THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON UP HERE. WE DID SEE, AS I SAID, A COUPLE OF OTHER SWABBED WHAT APPEARED TO BE OTHER SWAT VEHICLES COMING IN HERE JUST A SHORT TIME AGO AND MORE POLICE AGENCIES ARRIVING. THE COLORADO STATE PATROL IS DOWN ON THE OTHER END OF THE ROAD. THEY BLOCKED OFF SOME OF THE ROADWAYS HERE. BUT ONCE AGAIN, WHAT PEOPLE ARE JUST BEING BEING TOLD POLICE STRESS IS SAY SIDE, TRYING TO BE SAFE. YOU DO SEE SOME PEOPLE MOVING AROUND AND EVERY SOME PEOPLE WALKING THEIR DOGS. BUT SOME PEOPLE EVEN TOLD US THAT THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE MESSAGE, THE SHELTER-IN-PLACE ORDER. YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, THAT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT WHAT PHONE MESSAGE YOU'RE PICKING UP AT WHAT TIME OF THE DAY, DEPENDING ON WHERE WHERE YOUR ACTIVITIES OF THE MORNING WHEN YOU'RE BUT YOU CAN SEE QUITE AN ACTIVE SCENE DOWN HERE AND MAYBE A TELLTALE SIGN WHEN YOU SEE FIREFIGHTERS ON THE SCENE WEARING A BALLISTIC VESTS TO SEE DEFINITELY THE INTERESTING SITUATION DEVELOPING THERE. >> IN BROOMFIELD, WE HOPE EVERYBODY STAY SAFE. JIM, WE'LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU. AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU LIKE IN THE MESSAGES YOUR PHONE, YOU CAN CERTAINLY KEEP IT LOCKED HERE ON FOX. 31, WE'RE GOING CONTINUE TO UPDATE YOU. IN FACT, WE EXPECT TO GET AN UPDATE FROM POLICE AT SOME POINT THIS MORNING. THEY'RE SETTING UP A STAGING AREA AND WE'VE GOT CARLY MORE ON THE WAY TO THAT AREA RIGHT NOW. WE HOPE TO CHECK IN WITH HER LATER IN THIS HOUR. AS WE MAY HEAR FROM POLICE VERY SOON. AND I DO KNOW JUST QUICKLY, JEFFERSON ACADEMY THERE ON SECURE. SO THAT MEANS THE BUILDING. >> INSIDE THE SCHOOL BUSINESS AS USUAL. BUT BASICALLY THEY'RE JUST NOT LETTING ANYBODY IN THE SCHOOL OUT O