TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Police in Tucson have identified a man fatally shot by a police officer during an encounter that occurred after an earlier shooting involving another person.
The shootings occurred Wednesday in the Midvale Park area near Interstate 19, police said in a statement that identified the man killed as 35-year-old Charles Robert Arviso.
Police said Arviso in the initial shooting fired at least one shot that hit another person’s vehicle during a confrontation and he ran toward the Santa Cruz River.
Officers then saw Arviso in the riverbed with a handgun and gave him numerous commands to drop the weapon, police said.
Arviso responded by pointing the handgun toward officers, and one officer fired back, hitting Arviso, police said.
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