Deputies fatally shot an armed man who was holding a developmentally disabled woman at gunpoint inside a home near Qunicy Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon, Arapahoe County sheriff’s officials said Thursday.

The law enforcement agency waited 24 hours both to acknowledge that its deputies had shot someone and to report that the person had died at the scene.

Deputies responded to a home in the 4500 block of South Himalaya Circle just after 3 p.m. Wednesday after someone called 911 about a woman being held at gunpoint against her will, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday.

After trying to contact the man by phone and PA system, deputies determined he was barricaded in a bedroom with the woman and “made entry” to try to rescue her. They confronted the armed suspect while he was physically restraining the woman, according to the news release, “at which time an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

Sheriff’s officials Wednesday evening had similarly characterized the incident only as an “officer-involved shooting,” but refused to say whether anybody had been shot.

Thursday afternoon, Arapahoe County sheriff’s spokesperson Ginger Delgado confirmed to The Denver Post that the deputies shot the suspect.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Delgado declined to say whether the man fired his gun at deputies. The woman had “severe facial injuries” from an assault and was taken to an area hospital, where she was still being treated. She was not shot by deputies, Delgado said.

On Friday, the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office identified the man killed by police as Everett Duriel Shockley, 42.

Court records show Shockley had been convicted on multiple counts of felony menacing, harassment, assault, drug possession with intention to distribute, and obstruction of justice in Park, Denver and Arapahoe counties.

The sheriff’s office confirmed Thursday he did not live at the home.

The deputies involved in the shooting will be placed on paid leave while the incident is investigated by the 18th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team.

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