A shooting took place on Wednesday afternoon near Denver’s 16th Street Mall which left one man dead and another one injured. The shooting renewed concerns regarding public safety in the heart of downtown.

Police segregated off two blocks of Champa Street between 16th and 18th streets, and from office workers to tourists and homeless people watched and talked about the violence happened in a public place in broad daylight.

Doug Schepman , a spokesman of Police department said that Police officers had been assigned to the mall through a “Walk the Beat” program that was aimed at curbing crime responded to the shooting at 2:12 PM.

The fight took place in the parking lot outside the Renaissance Hotel on Champa Street where the victims had been shot. According to Schepman Two suspects got into an RTD bus, and police stopped the bus a few blocks away on Champa and caought them.

Police had still been investigating what created the fight On Wednesday night. The dead man’s identity had been withheld, pending family notification. Police have not named the suspects because they have not been charged.

As evening fell, crime scene technicians took pictures of clothes, shell casings and other evidences scattered in the hotel parking lot. Across the street, crime scene tape had blocked people from walking through blood spatter.

By Prakriti Neogi