A man who was using an app to track his stolen vehicle in Denver fatally shot a 12-year-old in an exchange of gunfire.
The incident happened on Sunday and an investigation into the shooting is ongoing, the Denver Police Department said in a Tuesday news release.
On Sunday, police received a report of a stolen vehicle in the 8300 block of East Northfield Boulevard. The owner of the vehicle, a man, tracked the vehicle on an app to the area of West 12th Avenue and Decatur Street, police said. The man approached the car and got into an exchange of gunfire with people inside the vehicle.
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“A juvenile male then drove the stolen vehicle to the 2900 block of West 10th Ave. where he was found by officers to be suffering from a gunshot wound,” the release said. The juvenile was taken to a hospital where he later died.
The man who shot the juvenile was contacted at the scene and he “has not been arrested at this time while the incident remains under investigation,” police said. Others who were inside the vehicle fled on foot at the time of the incident.
On Tuesday, the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner identified the juvenile as 12-year-old Elias Armstrong. He died of a gunshot wound and his manner of death is a homicide.
