{"id":48108,"date":"2021-03-09T01:35:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shooting-at-denvers-civic-center-park-prompts-brief-lockdown-of-colorado-capitol\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:41:50","slug":"shooting-at-denvers-civic-center-park-prompts-brief-lockdown-of-colorado-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shooting-at-denvers-civic-center-park-prompts-brief-lockdown-of-colorado-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at Denver\u2019s Civic Center park prompts brief lockdown of Colorado Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e922f434-b497-420e-8292-392ba41724c9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" alt=\"The Colorado Capitol was briefly locked down Monday afternoon because of a shooting in Denver\u2019s nearby Civic Center park.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Colorado Capitol was briefly locked down Monday afternoon because of a shooting in Denver\u2019s nearby Civic Center park.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Andy Colwell\/Special to The Colorado Sun file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Colorado Capitol was briefly locked down Monday afternoon because of a shooting in Denver\u2019s nearby Civic Center park.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened about 12:30 p.m. A man was wounded and taken to a hospital for treatment. His condition was not released.<\/p>\n<p>A suspect, also a man, has been arrested by Denver police.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting appeared to be unrelated to the Capitol, where the Legislature was meeting on Monday, but people were told they couldn\u2019t enter or exit the building as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado State Patrol said on Twitter that the lockdown was initiated out of an \u201cabundance of caution while situation develops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Daneya Esgar, D-Pueblo, told lawmakers gathered on the House floor to stay away from windows as police responded to the scene. Legislators received an alert about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Debate on the House floor about a bill requiring people to safely store their firearms did not stop because of the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>The lockdown was lifted about 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado lawmakers are set this year to spend more on Capitol security after the building sustained more than $1 million in damage during protests over the summer.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, nonpartisan news organization dedicated to covering Colorado issues. To learn more, go to coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wounded man taken to hospital for treatment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87308,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48108\/revisions\/87308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48108"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}