Arizona: Nine police officers were injured and two people, including a woman and the suspect gunman, died in a shooting early Friday morning during a barricade situation in Phoenix, the capital of the southwestern US state of Arizona, authorities said.
All of the officers’ injuries were non-life-threatening, police said.
The incident began when officers were called to a home where a woman was reported shot, Phoenix police said.
When an officer approached to help, the suspect, an adult man, invited the officer inside, said Phoenix police spokesman Andy Williams.
As the officer approached the door, “the suspect ambushed him with a gun and shot him several times,” Williams said. “That officer was able to get back and get away to safety.”
“Other backup officers arrived on scene and they surrounded the home and began calling out the occupants,” Williams said.
Then another man — not the suspect — came out of the house holding a baby girl, police said. The man put the baby on the ground and walked to police where he was detained.
When officers went to bring the baby to safety, the suspect again opened fire from inside the house, shooting four more officers.
Four other officers were indirectly injured when they were struck by shrapnel, police said.
The suspect then barricaded himself in the home, police said.
Once the scene was secured, police said they found the suspect inside, dead from an apparent gunshot wound. He was identified by police as 36-year-old Morris Jones.
