Police in Denver shot and killed a man during what officers have described as a domestic violence call early Friday morning. Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas said officers were called to a domestic violence incident between a man and a woman in the area of South Dahlia Street and East Warren Avenue just after 4 a.m.

Thomas said officers were responding to a "shots fired" report that came in at 4:03 a.m. when they were asked to respond to a domestic violence call in the same area just minutes later at 4:12 a.m.

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That's when officers said they saw a woman coming towards them and a man who started to run away after he spotted the officers. Officers tried to catch up to the man, believing he was involved in the domestic violence situation.

Thomas said the man had a gun and was struggling

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