DEPUTIES SHOOT, KILL MAN DURING TRAFFIC STOP

COUNTY» A man KIOWA was shot and killed Thursday by deputies.

The shooting happened about 3 p.m. during a traffic stop at Main Street and Colorado 96 in Brandon, according to the Colorado Department of Public Safety.

Deputies deployed a Taser on the man before shooting him, a news release said. It did not say whether the dead man was armed. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is investigating.

Program puts city’s homeless in hotel rooms. BROOMFIELD» Twenty-seven people, including children, who were homeless last week have found temporary shelter in 15 rooms at TownePlace Suites by Marriott.

On Friday, Broomfield Public Health Director Jason Vahlilng declared it a medical necessity for hotel vouchers to be used for unhoused residents.

By providing safe places to stay, Broomfield can protect individuals and families from being exposed to transmission of the virus and prevent further spread in the community, he stated.

Marrty Dormish, minister of community outreach at The Refuge, said the effort expands on an existing hotel voucher program. This emergency approach, he said, responds to the obvious question some of the city’s most vulnerable residents have asked since the COVID-19 outbreak began — how do they obey a statewide stay-at-home order when “you have no home, no bathroom or shower to use, and no place to rest and recuperate if you get sick?”

Pedestrian, 83, dies after being struck by pickup. LOVELAND» An 83-year-old man died Thursday morning after being struck by a pickup.

Loveland police said they received a report of a crash about 7:45 a.m., according to a news release.

The man was crossing the road to the west accompanied by his wife and his dog, the release said. The truck was driven by a 23-year-old woman, who was traveling south on Wilson Avenue when she struck the man.

He was taken by ambulance to Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, where he was pronounced dead. The wife and dog were not injured.

Weld County says more than 30 JBS employees have tested positive. GREELEY» More than 30 employees of the JBS beef plant have tested positive for COVID-19, Weld County’s health department said Thursday.

The department is investigating the plant in Greeley.

The number is at least double the cases that JBS Swift USA CEO Andre Nogueira said had been found as recently as Tuesday morning. The health department also is concerned about employees working while sick.

Investigators were at the plant Wednesday, according to witnesses.