2 dead with gunshot wounds inside car involved in crash

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DENVER – Two people died Friday evening after sustaining what police called “possible gunshot injuries” and crashing into another car on Peoria Street near E. 33^rd Avenue.

Denver police first tweeted about the crash around 6:45 p.m. Around 8:40 p.m., they said the crash had turned into a homicide investigation after the two people died at the scene.

The department said its preliminary information was that the two people who were shot were going southbound on Peoria at I-70 when the driver went into northbound traffic, crashing with another vehicle.

The other driver was hospitalized with serious injuries, while both the driver and a passenger of the first vehicle were both pronounced dead at the scene.

Denver police said the investigation was ongoing and there were no arrests made as of 9 p.m. Friday. The identities of the two people who died and their causes and manners of death will be released by the Office of the Medical Examiner.

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