Overview

• Deputies were dispatched around 7:12–7:15 a.m. to the Walmart at 10900 E. Briarwood Avenue in Centennial on a report of shoplifting.
• The sheriff's office says the man advanced on deputies with a machete and a knife, a Taser was ineffective, and a deputy then fired.
• Deputies provided medical aid, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene outside the store.
• The 18th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team is investigating, and the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office will release the man’s identity.
• The deputies have not been publicly identified, and Walmart said the store remained open while cooperating with police.