Denver Cops to Pay $365,000 for Killing a Man, Wounding Another with Barrage of Bullets in Botched Manhunt for Escaped Inmate
21 December 2021
The Denver Police Department will pay $365,000 to the victims of a 2018 manhunt gone wrong. Police had been staking out a house in Aurora, Colorado while searching for escaped inmate Mauricio Venzor-Gonzalez. Cops claimed to see two men leave the home and drive away in an SUV, throwing what looked like a gun out the window. Officers Susan Mercado and Austin Barela believed Venzor-Gonzalez was in the vehicle, and considered him to be armed and dangerous. The two officers chased the getaway vehicle in their police cars, shooting at the SUV as it fled. As the SUV crashed into ...
Denver Cops to Pay $365,000 for Killing a Man, Wounding Another with Barrage of Bullets in Botched Manhunt for Escaped Inmate
Officers Susan Mercado and Austin Barela believed Venzor-Gonzalez was in the vehicle, and considered him to be armed and dangerous. The two officers chased the getaway vehicle in their police cars, shooting at the SUV as it fled.
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