Two police officers shot and killed a machete-wielding suspect inside the Champions Center at the University of Colorado's Folsom Field on Wednesday morning, a move police said was in the "best interest" of the campus after the man refused to drop his weapon.
Following an altercation outside, the suspect — who has not yet been identified publicly — followed a patient into the sports-medicine facility, campus police said at an afternoon news conference.
A source close to the investigation told the Daily Camera that the suspect was a white male in his early 20s who appeared to be a "religious zealot of some kind" and who had been overheard talking about "looking for sinners." He has been tentatively ID'd as a recently discharged U.S. Marine, the source said.
The source said the suspect approached a woman sitting in her car in the parking lot outside the Champions Center and wrote a message referring to the Ten Commandments on the vehicle.
The shooting was the start of a tumultuous day on CU's Boulder campus that sparked several false active-shooter reports and the evacuation and closure of the University Memorial Center hours later.
Emergency responders were first alerted around 9:15 a.m. that a man with a machete had entered the Champions Center, the newly expanded athletics and sports-medicine facility west of Folsom Street on Stadium Drive.
