Two unrelated incidents that seemingly started with domestic violence and escalated into two police officers being shot in two neighboring cities ended Thursday with tragedy in one and a suspect still at large in the other.
A member of Glendale’s SWAT team killed a suspect who first opened fire at officers around 2 p.m. after an hours-long standoff near the intersection of 61st and Alice avenues, just a couple blocks south of Glendale Community College. Police had responded after a 911 call for domestic violence came in at 2:15 a.m. accusing the suspect, in his late 20s but unidentified pending family notification, who, according to police, was in the neighborhood making threats with a gun. He briefly eluded law enforcement following a foot pursuit and then barricaded himself with his gun to his own head in a nearby camper.
Meanwhile, as that standoff was into its eighth hour, Phoenix police say they were responding to a domestic violence call after a woman ran to a gas station in the area of Cave Creek and Beardsley roads around 10:15 a.m.
