Detectives are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Thursday afternoon near 25^th Avenue and Cactus Road, Phoenix police said.

Officers responded to a “shots fired call” about 2:15 p.m. May 16 at an apartment complex near 33^rd and Northern avenues. They found a man with at least one gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital where he died, police said.

Detectives gathered information at the scene that was given to members of the Phoenix Police Department’s Tactical Support Bureau, including members of the Special Assignments Unit.

The suspect was tracked to an apartment complex near 25^th Avenue and Cactus Road where police said he saw an officer, assigned to the Special Assignments Unit, in an unmarked vehicle. 

“The man produced a handgun began to fire it in the direction of the officer, striking his police vehicle multiple times,” a release from the Phoenix Police Department stated.

“The officer got out of his vehicle and fired back at the man striking him. The man ran for a short distance before falling to the ground.”

He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

No officers were injured.

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