Phillip Munoz, 35, was killed during a confrontation with police on December 2, 2015, after an intensive manhunt that involved the FBI’s Safe Streets Task Force and local officers. Munoz, who had a lengthy criminal history and outstanding warrants including an alleged shooting of his girlfriend the prior month, was spotted getting into a car in a Denver neighborhood near West 26th Avenue and Newton Street. Officers moved to arrest him; he fled, crashed into a gas meter that ignited, then exited the vehicle and exchanged gunfire with officers.

Munoz was shot multiple times at the scene and later pronounced dead; an autopsy recorded nine gunshot wounds and the presence of alcohol, amphetamine, and methamphetamine. Denver Police Technician John Ruddy was wounded in the leg; the DA’s later review found the officers’ use of deadly force legally justified and reported that the bullet that struck Ruddy likely passed through Munoz after being fired by another officer.

Are there readers who remember police activity in that area on December 2, 2015, or who can add details about what happened that day?