A man shot by a Buckeye Police Department officer early this morning was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his arm, according to Buckeye Police.
The department reported the officer-involved shooting early this morning after an officer responded to a call about a fight near Rainbow Road and Sundance Parkway.
“Around 3:45 a.m. Buckeye police received a call of a fight involving multiple people at a home on Ashleigh Masrie Drive,” police said in a prepared statement released to InBuckeye.
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Neither the name of the man shot nor the name of the officer has been released.
“The first arriving officer saw a man armed with a gun,” Police said. “Shortly after, an officer involved shooting occurred.”
According to police the man was shot in the arm and was injured enough that the officer “immediately applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding as emergency crews arrived.”
The man, age 40, was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. The officer was not
Injured, police said.
The shooting is under investigation by the West Valley Investigative Response Team with
Glendale police serving as the lead.
Editor’s Note: This story will be updated.
