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Arizona legislator calls for Glendale Police accountability in shooting

Posted 1/12/25

An Arizona Senator-elect representing portions of Glendale criticized Glendale Police for their response Wednesday, Jan. 8 to a domestic violence call that ended with a transient man unaffiliated …

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Arizona legislator calls for Glendale Police accountability in shooting

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An Arizona senator-elect representing portions of Glendale criticized Glendale Police for their response Wednesday, Jan. 8, to a domestic violence call that ended with a transient man unaffiliated with the call shot and killed in a local park.

The Peoria Police Department assumed the investigation into a Glendale Police Department officer-involved shooting that occurred Wednesday, Jan. 9, according to a news release.

Rep. Analise Ortiz, who assumes the role in the state senate in the same district this week, released a statement on the shooting Friday.

"As the elected State Senator of Legislative District 24, I am calling for full transparency of the West Valley Incident Response Team’s investigation. The public deserves to see any camera footage related to the incident and have a detailed explanation of what the next steps in the officer’s disciplinary process are," Ortiz's statement read.

Officers with the Glendale Police Department responded to a domestic violence call just after 7 p.m. near 47th and Glendale avenues. When officers arrived, they found a female victim who told officers she had been threatened by her ex-boyfriend and he had pointed a gun at her, the release said.

Officers went to Horizon Park and found the truck parked on Diana Avenue, along the north side of the park. Officers approached the truck but due to dark window tint could not see if anyone was inside. Officers were attempting to make verbal contact with any possible occupant of the truck, when their attention was drawn to an individual sitting at a nearby gazebo within the park.

Believing this man was the ex-boyfriend, officers gave verbal commands for the subject to raise his hands. The man did not comply with commands and made a movement toward his waistband. As a result, one Glendale officer fired at least one round striking him. Officers rendered aid but the subject died from his injuries on scene.

"Earlier this week, Glendale police shot and killed an innocent man who was just sitting in a park. The police involved in the incident were responding to a domestic violence call and shot at the innocent man before confirming it was (not) their suspect. This is unacceptable and there must be accountability for this horrifying act," Ortiz's statement read.

Following the shooting, officers approached the ex-boyfriend’s truck and discovered the ex-boyfriend was lying down in the driver’s seat with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. With assistance from the fire department, officers rendered aid, and the ex-boyfriend was taken to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

During this investigation, detectives could determine no known connection between the ex-boyfriend and the subject at the park. The subject at the park has been identified as a 46-year-old Dillon Siebeck of Tucson. 

One handgun was recovered from inside the ex-boyfriend’s vehicle. No firearm was located on the subject at the park.

The officers involved were wearing their activated body worn cameras.

"Unfortunately, this shooting is not an isolated incident. In the U.S., more people were killed by police in 2024 than any other year in the past decade. Very few of those resulted in officers being charged with a crime," Ortiz's statement read.

"There must also be broader action from the Glendale Police Department to ensure a deadly mistake like this never happens again. Our community deserves to be safe from the threat of unchecked police violence," the statement concluded.

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