The shooting in the district of Denver LoDo kills 1 person and hurts at least 3 others

Police are investigating a shooting in the DenDo district of Denver, which killed one and sent at least three others to hospital on Monday in critical condition.

The shooting took place on 21st and Lawrence Streets, south of Coors Field. The gunman is still on the run, the police said.

Hisam Derani had just left work and was returning home, parked a scooter and exchanged it for a bike, when he had heard gunshots.

"I did not know what to think," Derani said.

Derani leaned instinctively behind a vehicle for safety reasons, snuggling near a tire out of the shooter's sight. "If he crosses the street … I'm screwed up," recalls Derani.

After about half a dozen shots, with Derani witnessing the initial shot or the two previous shots, the shot stops. Derani looked back down the street and saw the shooter get into a car, behind the wheel and slam the driver's door before driving off.

A person in the crowd who was shot after firing shots at the car while she was spinning away, said Derani. The people who were there then began to move away, leaving the people shot dead.

Derani used his cell phone to call 911. Some other witnesses rushed to the victims to see if they could help. The police arrived on the scene quickly.

Derani described the crowd that was shot as homeless or destitute. He said that the man who had shot in the crowd had held the handgun with both hands.

"Oh my God, oh my God," said Derani. "I saw him (shooter) approaching the crowd."

After making a statement to the police, the police asked Derani to look at a man who had been arrested as a potential suspect, but Derani said he was not the gunman.

Justin Franzen and Robert Abbott were inside the Grafenberg Theater at 1223 21st St., when they heard the shot. The two men had started construction work on the theater and had just finished with a nail gun. They took a break and ate tacos when the shot rang out. At first they thought it was just noise from other nearby construction work.

Curious, they went out to check. "We saw people lying on the sidewalk … we saw people running," Franzen said. They also called 911. Once the police arrived, the two men directed them towards a trail of blood moving away from the scene.

"At first we were just trying to figure out what was going on," Abbott said. "We are definitely troubled."

Simon Crittle, a spokesman for the Denver Health Medical Center, said paramedics responded to the scene and found four victims, including one who was pronounced dead.

Denver police spokesman Doug Schepman said another woman was shot in the leg, but the authorities were not able to locate her. The three victims who were taken by ambulance to DHMC have all been in critical condition, Crittle said.

It is not certain that there was one or more shooters involved, Schepman said. Nor did it specify any potential motive or other suspicious information.