Nine people injured in Arizona shooting; suspect shot by police
Nine people were shot and injured in a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, early Sunday morning, police said. A suspected gunman was shot and wounded by police.
The incident took place at around 2 a.m. local time in downtown Tucson, where officers patrolling the area heard gunfire and "immediately began running toward the sound," said Frank Magos, of the Tucson Police Department, at a news conference on Sunday.
Those officers encountered the suspect, an adult man, and gave "repeated commands" before one fired his weapon, striking the suspect, Magos said.
All nine people wounded in the shooting, in addition to the suspect, received on-site emergency care by first responders before being hospitalized. According to Magos, many of the victims were shot in their extremities and taken to hospitals "in critical condition." He did not identify any of them, but he did say everyone struck by gunfire was an adult.
Magos said that while the suspect's identity "is known" to police, they would not be releasing it publicly at this time.
Few other details have come to light about the circumstances surrounding the shooting or what may have motivated it. Magos told reporters that the crime scene is "rather large."