Woman injured in shooting with Clear Creek County deputies near Georgetown

A woman with a warrant out for her arrest from Oklahoma was shot and injured Thursday by Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputies near Georgetown, according to the sheriff’s office.

Sheriff’s officials said on social media that the shooting happened about 6 miles east of Georgetown at the intersection of County Road 308 and County Road 306, also known as Alvarado Road, near Interstate 70 in Lawson.

Empire police officers first contacted the woman with a warrant out for her arrest at about 10:20 a.m. Thursday in an area where U.S. 40 meets I-70 known as “Empire Junction,” according to Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Jenny Fulton.

Fulton said the woman, who was the only person in the car, was sitting in the passenger seat and refused to exit the vehicle for police.

She crawled from the passenger seat into the driver’s seat and fled, Fulton said. Clear Creek County deputies, who had responded to the scene when Empire police officers called for backup, pursued.

The woman was driving too fast and crashed on a sharp turn on County Road 306, Fulton said.

She got out of the car with a gun, waving it around and pointing it multiple times at deputies, Fulton said. When she started to flee on foot, deputies deployed “less-than-lethal force.”

It’s not clear what nonlethal measures they took, but Fulton said it was ineffective.

The woman then stopped running and pointed her gun at deputies again, Fulton said. That’s when three deputies shot her.

No officers were injured and paramedics took the woman who was shot, who has not been publicly identified, to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Fulton.

Thursday’s police shooting is under investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. All three deputies are currently on paid administrative leave pending the results of that investigation.

This is the Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office’s first documented police shooting since the death of 22-year-old Christian Glass in 2022.

Glass called 911 for help after his car got stuck in Silver Plume on June 11, 2022, and was experiencing a mental health crisis when a Clear Creek County deputy shot and killed him.

A jury found Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputy Andrew Buen guilty in February of criminally negligent homicide in Glass’s death.

Buen is next scheduled to appear in court for a sentencing hearing on April 14, where he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison.

The six other officers present on the night of the shooting were also charged with failing to intervene in the excessive force of another officer. Charges were dropped against two of them, both Colorado Division of Gaming officers, in December.

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