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The shootings happened on June 7, the first about 4 a.m. outside the front door of a Quality Inn, near the intersection of Speer Boulevard and North Zuni Street, where an officer sitting in a marked patrol vehicle was ambushed by a man who fired multiple shots.

The video shows the suspect, identified Wednesday as Nicholas Lendrum, 35, walk in front of the patrol vehicle and enter the hotel. A short time later, he exits and fires at the officer through the front passenger-side window.

The patrol officer, a corporal in District 6, drops in the seat and falls out of the driver’s side door, the video shows. The officer was shot three times, once in his front torso and twice in the back, Major Crimes Division Cmdr. Matt Clark said at the Wednesday news conference.

As seen on video, Lendrum walks around the front of the patrol vehicle as the officer returns fire. The officer then scrambles to the passenger side of the patrol vehicle to use it as cover, and continues to fire.

When the gunfire stops, the officer speaks into his radio microphone.

“Shots fired, I’m hit,” he says. “I have my eye on the suspect. He’s down, I don’t see him moving. The suspect is down, start an ambulance.”

Lendrum and the officer, who was not identified Wednesday, were taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where Lendrum died. The officer, because of his vest, suffered bruises. He was treated and released.