Overview

• A Fremont County deputy responded to a welfare check around 6 p.m. in the 1400 block of Chestnut Street and encountered a 27-year-old barricaded inside a home.
• CBI officials say the man pointed a gun at the deputy before the deputy shot him, and the man was taken to a hospital where he is expected to survive.
• The deputy was not struck by gunfire but experienced a medical incident after the shooting, received hospital care, and has since been released.
• Agents discovered items inside the home that appeared to be bombs, and the Pueblo Metro Bomb Squad determined the devices were inert.
• Investigators plan to review the deputy’s body-camera footage, and officials expect to arrest the suspect on suspicion of assault, menacing, and prohibited use of a weapon once he is medically cleared.