A LaPlata County deputy shot and killed a man wielding with an axe handle and baseball bat during a domestic dispute near Durango, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation reported Wednesday.
It occurred Tuesday on U.S. Highway 550. A woman accompanying the man avoided injury. The pair had been riding in a car and fighting.
CBI provided this detailed account:
"At approximately 2:40 p.m., the Durango Emergency Communications Center received multiple 911 calls reporting a male and female involved in a physical domestic disturbance inside a moving vehicle traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 550, leaving the City of Durango.
"A La Plata County Sheriff’s Deputy and a Durango Police Officer located the vehicle in the 28000 block of U.S. Highway 550 and initiated a traffic stop.
"According to preliminary information, (including officer body-cam footage) the female passenger ran towards law enforcement officers for aid. The male driver, armed with an ax handle and a baseball bat advanced toward the female and the Deputy. The Deputy fired his service weapon."
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