{"id":2447199,"date":"2019-08-05T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/two-officers-involved-in-shooting-near-rifle\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T04:56:00","slug":"two-officers-involved-in-shooting-near-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/two-officers-involved-in-shooting-near-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Two officers involved in shooting near Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the Critical Incident Team investigate the scene of an officer involved shooting on the Colorado River bridge between I-70 and Whiteriver Avenue in Rifle Monday evening.<\/strong>
Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Two Rifle police officers were involved in a shooting incident on the Colorado River bridge near the main Rifle Interstate 70 exit Monday evening that sent one man to the hospital with undisclosed injuries.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from the Rifle Police Department late Monday evening, two police officers made contact with an individual during a vehicle stop on the bridge, between the I-70 exit and Whiteriver Avenue, a short time before 8 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe contact led to shots being fired. Investigators recovered a weapon not belonging to the officers at the scene,\u201d according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The subject was transported by ambulance to the hospital by Colorado River Fire Rescue with undisclosed injuries. No officers were injured, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Rifle Police Chief Tommy Klein said the bridge will remain closed until the field investigation is complete.<\/p>\n

A \u201ccritical incident team,\u201d which is made up of local law enforcement agencies within the 9th Judicial District, was contacted, per standard procedure, and will take over the investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPer policy, both involved officers have been placed on administrative leave and the Rifle Police Department will perform an administrative review,\u201d Klein said.<\/p>\n

Traffic headed into Rifle and northbound on Highway 13 was being routed to the West Rifle exit until the investigation is complete.<\/p>\n

A Garfield County emergency alert was first sent at 7:57 p.m. noting the bridge closure just north of the main I-70 exit at Rifle.<\/p>\n

kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Members of the Critical Incident Team investigate the scene of an officer involved shooting on the Colorado River bridge between I-70 and Whiteriver Avenue in Rifle Monday evening.Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent Two Rifle police officers were involved in a shooting incident on the Colorado River bridge near the main Rifle Interstate 70 exit Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 12:06:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}