MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A man is hospitalized with wounds described as serious but not life-threatening after being shot by Mesa police.
Police say officers shot the man after he twice fired a shotgun during a Monday night encounter in a parking lot behind a business.
Detective Steve Berry says the shotgun rounds fired by the man struck the back wall of a vacant building and that no officers were injured.
Berry says the officers had found the man after getting a call about a man with a gun.
Berry says the man fired the shotgun after he refused to comply with officers’ commands to drop it.
The man’s name was not released.
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