Capitol shooting

Legislators were not in session when a man with a gun walked into the state Capitol today, but the governor was in his office. (Police say a state trooper shot the man, after he refused to drop his gun outside the governor's office.) AP reporter Steve Paulson, Denver Post reporter Mark Couch and Charles Ashby of The Pueblo Chieftain (they regularly cover the statehouse) were among those who heard the gunshots in the building. Construction has been going on at the Capitol, in the basement. At the Capitol, the center is open all the way from the basement to the third floor, so you can look up and down to each floor when you're standing in the middle of the building. Some inside the Capitol said their first thought when they the bangs was that it was a plank or something that fell during construction.