MORRISTOWN, Ariz. (AP) - The Latest on an Arizona police shooting (all times local):
1 p.m.
Maricopa County authorities say the OnStar vehicle assistance service was used to track and then disable a stolen SUV, leading to a gunfight in which a home-invasion suspect was shot and wounded by sheriff’s deputies.
The Sheriff’s Office says the SUV was stolen at gunpoint from occupants of a home in Buckeye and that the incident ended later Monday morning in the Morristown area about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Phoenix.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the suspect and deputies exchanged gunfire. No deputies were injured, and the suspect suffered with non-life threatening injuries.
No identities were released.
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10:45 a.m.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says no deputies were injured in a shooting that left a home-invasion suspect wounded with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.
Sheriff’s spokesman Mark Casey says the suspect fired first and that the Monday morning incident began with a home invasion in Buckeye.
Casey says the suspect stole a vehicle and led deputies on a chase.
It ended in a road off U.S. 60 in Morristown, which is about 45 miles northwest of Phoenix and about 10 miles southeast of Wickenburg.
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