An Aurora Police officer shot and killed a man over the weekend in what Aurora’s police chief described as a routine traffic stop that escalated quickly into a deadly confrontation.

It happened Saturday evening around 7:30pm. In a briefing with the media Chief Todd Chamberlain said the incident occurred at the intersection of 6th Avenue and Billings after a traffic infraction caused an officer to try to pull a suspect over, and the suspect rear-ended another vehicle.

“He tried to make a traffic stop,” said Chamberlain. “The behavior of the suspect was not normal. He plowed into another vehicle in front of him, which caused it with such force to go across the median and into oncoming traffic. He then crashed into another car. He refused at this point that we know for sure to listen to our

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