Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
UPDATE
Phoenix police identify suspect in officer-involved shooting
(Metro Creative Connection)
Posted
INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA
A Phoenix police officer was in serious but stable condition Tuesday following a shootout near 10th Street and Southern Avenue.
A man died after being shot by another officer during a fight after the victim pulled out a handgun and shot the injured officer in the leg, police said.
The suspect was identified Wednesday morning as 48-year-old Sergio Francisco Alvarez.
The incident began about 2:55 a.m. May 28 when two officers patroling the area stopped a man on a bike for a traffic violation, according to a release.
“The officer riding in the passenger seat got out to contact the man. The man immediately became combative. A fight broke out, and the officer driving the patrol Tahoe came around his vehicle to help the first officer detain the suspect,” the release stated.
During the struggle the man pulled out a handgun and fired it, striking one of the officers in the leg, police said, adding the other officer returned fire hitting the man. The man, who was disarmed at that point, ran a short distance on Southern Avenue and was taken into custody by arriving officers.
He died later at a hospital.
It was the ninth officer-involved shooting of 2024, according to the release. There have been eight incidents where officers have been directly fired on. Three of those have resulted in officers being shot in the line of duty.
“This is indicative of the violence officers face every day protecting our community,” said Interim Phoenix Police Chief Michael Sullivan.
We’d like to invite our readers to submit their civil comments on this issue. Email AZOpinions@iniusa.org.
