Colorado Shooting: Gunman Kills at Least 3 at Walmart in Denver

Local Editor

At least three people have been killed in a shooting inside a Walmart store in suburban Denver, where police said they had not yet taken anyone into custody.

Police in Thornton, Colorado, did not immediately release any information about the circumstances of the shooting or who was responsible for the gunfire.

Two men were killed in the shooting. A women, who was injured in the shooting, was taken to a hospital where she later died, Thornton Police Department said on Twitter.

"Detectives currently reviewing security footage & witnesses being interviewed for assistance with suspects," police said on Twitter.

No one had been taken into custody, police said.

The situation appeared potentially ominous from authorities' initial reports.

"We've got multiple parties down, we're still trying to ascertain what their conditions are," Officer Victor Avila of the Thornton Police Department told Reuters by telephone not long after police arrived on the scene.

About an hour after the initial alert, police said on Twitter that the threat of gunfire had ended at the store, which was surrounded by police and fire crews.

"At this time this is NOT an active shooter. Active crime scene. We will update as info becomes available," the police department said in that tweet. Confirmation of the two fatalities came about 20 minutes later.

Thornton is city of about 120,000 people roughly 10 miles northeast of downtown Denver.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team