A 37-year-old Black man shot and killed by an Aurora police officer after an attempted traffic stop and crash Saturday night was armed and charged the officer before the shooting, Chief Todd Chamberlain said Tuesday.

Rajon Montrel Lee Belt-Stubblefield tossed a gun into the grass after he crashed into two vehicles while fleeing an Aurora police officer who was trying to pull him over for speeding, Chamberlain said at a news conference at Aurora Police Department headquarters.

Chamberlain declined to name the officer who shot Belt-Stubblefield, citing the fact that the officer has not yet been interviewed by 18th Judicial District critical incident investigators and that threats were made against the officer and his family.

The encounter happened over the course of five minutes from when

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