Update: Affidavit says fugitive shot by deputies at Springs Hobby Lobby was on ‘death mission’

UPDATE:

An arrest affidavit says that Brian Lowe told authorities he was on a “death mission” when he was shot by an El Paso County Sheriff’s Deputy on the evening of May 8.

The affidavit says Lowe told a detective that he wanted the deputies to shoot him.

The affidavit says that Lowe told the detective that he got a stun gun away from one of the deputies during a struggle inside the Hobby Lobby on S. 8th Street and that he was trying to stun the deputies with it, but that he was unable to figure out how to make it work. It says Lowe told the detective that he didn’t blame the deputy for shooting him.

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ORIGINAL REPORT:

Two El Paso County sheriff’s deputies are back on duty after shooting a wanted fugitive at a Colorado Springs Hobby Lobby.

But we’ve learned Springs police contacted that man an hour earlier.

Police say the department of corrections searched for 48-year-old Brian Lowe after he left a halfway house.

Sgt. Shane Mitchell and Deputy Keith Duda were looking for Lowe.

But police stopped him about an hour before at the KRDO NewsChannel 13 studios.

Police radios even revealed he was heading to the Hobby Lobby after leaving KRDO.

When KRDO General Manager Tim Larson got an email from the receptionist, he came out and asked Lowe to leave.

“I asked him what he wanted and he said, ‘I want to talk to the Department of Corrections’ and I said, ‘Well there’s nobody here from the Department of Corrections,'” Larson said.

But Lowe insisted on staying in the station, so Larson called police.

“He didn’t seem to be violent, he seemed to be resigned,” he said.

But when police arrived to escort him from the building, Larson said he only got angrier.

But in the process, police never asked for his identity.

As to why not, CSPD admits they don’t know yet.

“There are portions of the investigation that are still ongoing,” said Lt. Catherine Buckley, spokeswoman for the department.

She says that answer will come as they continue to follow up with the officer. CSPD is also the lead agency in the Hobby Lobby shooting.

Background checks are typical when you get pulled over for something like a traffic violation. But police sources tell us they’re not always performed if someone refuses to leave a building, because there’s no reasonable suspicion that they’re wanted for something else.

“If there was no probable cause to make an arrest, then they moved him along,” Sheriff Bill Elder said when asked about procedure.

His deputies are back at work after the shooting last Friday. But the district attorney’s office is still reviewing the case.

“It’ll take them a while to determine everything, and we’ll give them the time they need,” he said.