Denver Police officers worked for nearly an hour to bring a hostage situation to a peaceful conclusion before fatally shooting a man who was armed with a knife inside a northeast Denver home and holding two people hostage earlier this month. About 8:30 p.m. May 1, Denver Police said, officers responded to a family disturbance in the 2000 block of North Oneida Street in the South Park Hill neighborhood. "Throughout the interaction, the suspect seemed agitated and was often yelling while speaking," DPD commander Matt Clark said Wednesday. "At times he appeared to be yelling at the two individuals he was holding in the room." shows that when officers arrived at the home, they were met by a woman outside who reported that the suspect was inside armed with a knife. She had called 911 and also reported that her nephew, 55-year-old Frankie Lee Evans, had used narcotics earlier in the evening.