No injuries after shot fired at Obama campaign office in Denver
October 12th, 2012
09:29 PM ET
10 years ago

No injuries after shot fired at Obama campaign office in Denver

(CNN) - A single shot was fired Friday at an Obama campaign office in Denver, Colorado, a police spokeswoman said.

The shot resulted in no injuries, although people were in the building at the time, Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez told CNN.

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Police did not have a description of a suspect but did have a possible vehicle of interest, Lopez said.

A glass window was shattered, images of the scene showed.

Lopez said the Secret Service, which protects President Obama, was not involved in the investigation Friday, although the agency’s involvement would depend on what Denver police find.

Obama's re-election campaign had no comment and referred questions to Denver police.

Obama was in Washington on Friday.

- CNN's Marlena Baldacci, Kevin Bohn and Gregory Wallace contributed to this report

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Filed under: 2012 • Colorado • President Obama
soundoff (441 Responses)
  1. Jim

    Did Denver police blame a movie for this?

    October 12, 2012 09:42 pm at 9:42 pm |
  2. JD

    Probably a democrat like multiple instances I'm '08. And since.

    Who trashed the Colorado office? Who did the hate mails? Democrats.

    Still waiting in the "racists" comments on audio from the health care debate.

    October 12, 2012 09:48 pm at 9:48 pm |
  3. Michael

    The repubs know they can't win, so they have resorted to violence and intimidation (in ADDITION to laws that discriminate against the poor) in order to try to rig the election.

    October 12, 2012 09:48 pm at 9:48 pm |
  4. neal

    ....sound's like some tea partying gutless swine.

    October 12, 2012 09:49 pm at 9:49 pm |
  5. Name Penguin

    This must be part of the "2d Amendment Rights" the Republican Party is always threatening

    October 12, 2012 09:49 pm at 9:49 pm |
  6. Kevin

    Sick misguided people

    October 12, 2012 09:51 pm at 9:51 pm |
  7. kim

    This has been my biggest fear, that the right wing fringe is so desperate, and hate the idea of a black man in the White House so much, that they would resort to this.

    October 12, 2012 09:51 pm at 9:51 pm |
  8. ronjayaz

    it duznt sound good. America better be sure that Our President is well-protected, esp. after he wins the election. If anything happens to him America will burn, burn, burn 1000 times more than MLK's time.

    October 12, 2012 09:52 pm at 9:52 pm |
  9. Miki thinks

    We don't need no stinkin' gun laws.

    October 12, 2012 09:52 pm at 9:52 pm |
  10. RealityInc

    Voter suppression is becoming more violent and if the opposition can't win the election then they will steal it, by hook or by crook. Joe must have won last night after all...

    October 12, 2012 09:54 pm at 9:54 pm |
  11. james

    Get ready for another 4 years of the great Obama...I love Denver but you have some mental problems.

    October 12, 2012 09:55 pm at 9:55 pm |
  12. PaulGadner

    Not surprising to me. The hatred for Obama has been verging on scary lately...and the fury is greatest among the already unstable right wingnuts.

    October 12, 2012 09:56 pm at 9:56 pm |
  13. Not Fat

    Chair lynchings, death threats, now shots fired. The Republicants think murdering the president will get them what they want. Isn't ignorance and hatred sad? It's 2012!

    October 12, 2012 09:56 pm at 9:56 pm |
  14. Barry Soetoro

    It's George Bush's fault.

    October 12, 2012 09:56 pm at 9:56 pm |
  15. James L.

    7 abortion doctors murdered, one right in his own church. Hundreds of clinics bombed, many more trashed and graffitied. One Democratic politician shot in the head, many Democratic politicians spit on. Our president has had more threats than any president in history. When is the extremist right wing going to stop? When do the regressive's realize they have gone too far? When do the right wing crazies get out of the way, stop helping our enemies see us as weak, so we can get on with making America respected and strong again? When do they stop before it is too late?

    October 12, 2012 09:57 pm at 9:57 pm |
  16. Nietodarwin

    Surely the shooter is some Talibangelical who will claim that "god" told him to do it.
    We need to vote this GOP completely out of government, let them regroup with new moderate conservatives, and get the woman abusing religious fanatics OUT of the House.

    October 12, 2012 09:57 pm at 9:57 pm |
  17. Dennis

    Merely more dirty right wing and Tea Party extremists who will go to no end to disrupt and cheat in order to win the upcoming election.

    October 12, 2012 09:57 pm at 9:57 pm |
  18. MikeInCarolina

    GOP surrogates, especially on talk radio, have been spewing hate against Obama for 4 years on a 24/7 daily basis. This is a predictable result and it shows the mentality of a vast number of those who love tuning in to the garbage on those shows. It can't be for news or information because it's so one sided that it's obviously propaganda. Thanks to such hosts, the modern KKK is alive and well and doing the same kinds of things they were doing 50 years ago.

    October 12, 2012 09:59 pm at 9:59 pm |
  19. Bootstomper

    Lets hear it for the NRA.

    October 12, 2012 10:01 pm at 10:01 pm |
  20. Anonymous

    Typical nut bag conservative ,something does'nt go their way and they fly off the hinges.
    They hate the President so much that they resort to violence, just shows you how racist and bigoted these
    people really are. I hate rebuplicans with a passion but i would never want to see them hurt or killed.

    October 12, 2012 10:02 pm at 10:02 pm |
  21. Tom

    The base of the GOP is made up of a lot of gun toting crackpots.

    October 12, 2012 10:02 pm at 10:02 pm |
  22. Robert

    Racist Republicans

    October 12, 2012 10:03 pm at 10:03 pm |
  23. randomcnn

    The republicans are at it again.

    October 12, 2012 10:04 pm at 10:04 pm |
  24. Doodad

    Probably just some of the Boyz from the Hood sayin' "Wassup" !

    October 12, 2012 10:04 pm at 10:04 pm |
  25. Darrell Humphreys

    Typical nut bag conservative, things dont go their way and they fly off the hinges.
    They hate the President so much that they resort to violence.
    I hate republicans with a passion but i would never want to see them hurt or killed.

    October 12, 2012 10:05 pm at 10:05 pm |
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