The Aurora Police detailed the fatal shooting of a man armed with a replica rifle by officers responding to a reported fight.

Aurora Police Department’s new chief on Monday confirmed the man who was fatally shot by police last week was carrying an airsoft gun, alleging the man was there “to intimidate, to terrorize and to threaten” the community.

AURORA | A man fatally shot by an Aurora Police officer Oct. 3 after an attempted robbery in an Aurora apartment parking lot was carrying what was described as a replica of an assault-style rifle, according to Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain.

The man who was shot and killed by Aurora police officers near the nonprofit Brent's Place was carrying a replica of a tactical air rifle, Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain announced during a press conference Monday.

An adult man was seriously hurt after being shot in the leg during a large fight in a hotel parking lot in Aurora Saturday night, according to the Aurora Police Department.

The fight, in a parking lot in the 11900 block of East 16th Avenue, involved a man “armed with an assault-style long gun,” according to an Aurora police post on X . Police said on X that the man struck by gunfire was taken to a hospital, where he died.

The Aurora Police Department (APD) shot and killed a man thought to be wielding an AR-15 rifle last week. The gun was actually a tactical air rifle.