An incident in Guadalupe late Sunday night ended with the fatal shooting of a man by Maricopa County deputies, according to FOX 10 Phoenix. The situation began after deputies responded to a hit-and-run crash on U.S. 60, where a Jeep Patriot had struck a guardrail before fleeing, as confirmed by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
The subsequent events unfolded near Guadalupe Town Hall, where the man, then suspected of involvement in the crash, was reportedly expressing suicidal thoughts and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says when deputies made contact with the man, he brandished a weapon and did not comply with their orders, which led to the deputies discharging their service firearms, subsequently resulting in the man’s death “Both deputies fired their service weapon, the suspect was shot, and he was pronounced deceased on scene,” Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez told FOX 10 Phoenix.
Arizona’s Family reports the man was in his 40s, and the deputies involved, both with roughly five years on the force, were unharmed during the incident; they were assigned to work in Guadalupe and the area around Avenida del Yaqui and Calle Guadalupe remained closed off for investigation following the event which marked the 17th officer-involved shooting in Maricopa County and the 39th in Arizona this year…