Avondale Police are requesting the help from the public to identify a man involved in a fatal police shooting near 10th Street and Riley Drive in Avondale earlier this year.
The incident took place on Feb. 21, where the victim who was suspected of shoplifting at two nearby stores in the same day. Officers then received a description of the suspect and found a man matching that description on Agua Fria River bottom near 10th Street and Riley Drive.
The officer approached him and he was reportedly was not cooperative with police, was then shot and killed by an Avondale Police officer, police said.
