Nineteen-year-old Cynthia Valdez, a close friend and schoolmate of the girl, said Monday night "we`re angry about it. It`s another life taken by another cop."
Police Chief Robert White says an officer had been called to check on a suspicious vehicle. White says a colleague arrived and as the officers approached the car, the driver struck one of them with the vehicle. The officers then opened fire.
Nazzi McDonnell, left, of Colorado Springs, Colo., joins other participants in waving placards during a vigil near the scene of a fatal shooting of a young woman who hit and injured a Denver Police Department officer while driving a stolen vehicle on Monday.
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