Officer-Involved Shooting In Louisville Is First Ever For Town
LOUISVILLE, Colo. (CBS4)- Officers from the Louisville Police Department were involved in a shooting on Thursday evening.
Officers were called to the Village Square Shopping Center in the 500 block of East South Boulder Road in Louisville about 5:26 p.m. on reports of a suspicious vehicle in a possible narcotics violation.
As officers made contact, an altercation took place and shots were fired.
The officers involved were not injured and the suspect was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
The Louisville Chief of Police said that this is the first officer-involved shooting in the history of the town.
The Boulder County Investigation Team is leading the investigation into the officer-involved shooting.
The names of the officers are not being released.
Saturday, the suspect -- 25-year-old Nicholas Moses -- was released from the hospital and taken directly to the Boulder County Jail. Per Louisville PD, he received non-life threatening injuries and is being held on numerous Failure To Appear warrants.
A passenger in the car, 57-year-old John Moses, had also been taken to the hospital Thursday night for medical reasons "unrelated to the incident," according to Louisville PD. John Moses was also released from the hospital Saturday and also taken directly to jail. He's being held on charges that are unrelated to Thursday's incident, LPD said.
