As police fired their weapons at a man who they say pointed a handgun at them, bystanders were hit by what authorities think may have been ricocheting bullets or shrapnel from bullets.

The Baca County Sheriff will be stepping up temporarily to police Springfield.

About 170,000 pills were seized in April from a vehicle outside an apartment complex in Aurora. In an unrelated traffic stop of a vehicle headed toward Tulsa, Oklahoma, on I-70 in February, 30,000 fentanyl pills were collected.

The summit is in Aurora with good reason. The community is struggling with a soaring crime rate and a police department investigated for discrimination issues.

Daniel Oates acknowledged that the agency is in turmoil following the controversial ousting of former police chief Vanessa Wilson.