Officer-involved shooting under investigation
Investigations continue within Fort Collins Police Services
relating to an officer-involved shooting that occurred at 2:50 a.m.
on Friday at the Stadium Apartments, 2209 W. Elizabeth St.,
according to a press release from Fort Collins Police Services.
Police were called to the scene when a neighbor heard a woman
screaming. Police discovered that the woman was being threatened
with a handgun by her son, 34-year-old Mark Daeschner. The woman
told police her son was suicidal after fleeing the apartment where
he was.
When officers arrived at apartment 208, Daeschner told police
they would have to shoot him and then emerged from his apartment
with a handgun and pointed it towards the officers. Sgt. Richard
Zeigler shot Daeschner in his upper right leg and Daeschner was
then transported to Poudre Valley Hospital and is in stable
condition.
It was later determined that Daeschner’s weapon was a BB/pellet
gun. Sgt. Zeigler, Fort Collins police officer for 16 years, was
placed on paid administrative leave. It is Fort Collins Police
Services policy to place an officer under investigation on paid
administrative leave.
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