DENVER — Police in Denver are investigating after a suspect fleeing from a deadly shooting died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after a vehicle crash Sunday.
The male suspect was seen leaving the scene of a shooting that left one man dead in the area of W. Arkansas Avenue and S. Knox Court around 9 a.m. Sunday, according to the Denver Police Department.
Police said officers pursued the vehicle until the suspect crashed into another car and then crashed again in the area of S. University Boulevard and Cherry Hills Farm Drive.
After the crash, the department said officers found the suspect deceased inside his car from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The three people inside the vehicle the suspect allegedly crashed into were not injured.
The victim — identified as Efrain Enrique Palacio Delgado, 26 — and suspect were known to each other and were involved in a verbal altercation that escalated to a shooting, according to police. Their identities have not been released.
Police said the entirety of the incident remains under investigation.
Editor's note on Aug. 23: This story has been edited to include the name of the victim killed in this shooting.
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