Phoenix police say they arrested a man early Tuesday morning after he inflicted minor injuries on two officers as they attempted to arrest him.
Phoenix police say they arrested a man early Tuesday morning after he shot at two officers as they attempted to arrest him.
Sgt. Brian Bower, a Phoenix Police Department spokesperson, said the 24-year-old man, who remains unidentified, fought with officers at an apartment complex near 16th Street and Morten Avenue. The officers were responding to reports of a fight. Officers found the man and a woman and began talking to the man before asking him to take his hands out of his pockets. Bower said the man refused multiple times and accidentally fired a gun in his pocket when the officer tried to force the man to show his hands.
Bower said the man continued struggling with officers and fired several more shots as officers detained him.The man was in the process of being booked into a Maricopa County jail.