Trooper ambushed and shot. Shooter taken out by civilian.
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Trooper 'ambushed,' shot in Tonopah expected to be OK; suspect shot and killed by passer-by
PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) -
Two people are dead and a Department of Public Safety trooper who was wounded while responding to a shots fired call along Interstate 10 near Tonopah just might owe his life to an armed passer-by who stopped at exactly the right time.
It started shortly before 4:30 a.m. Thursday with a 911 call from a driver east of California who said somebody shot at his car from the median. According to Col. Frank Milstead, the directors of DPS, that's the call to which the trooper was responding when he came upon a single-vehicle rollover wreck near Tonopah. A woman had been ejected from that vehicle.
The trooper immediately stopped and began laying out flares.
DPS Capt. Damon Cecil said the trooper, a 27-year-veteran of the agency, was ambushed by the suspect when he got out of his vehicle at the scene of the rollover. That's when the trooper was shot and wounded.
"A physical fight between our trooper and that suspect then ensued, at which time the suspect was shot and killed," Cecil said. "Right now that's all we have. This is a fluid investigation."
Milstead, speaking from the hospital to which his trooper and taken, said an "uninvolved third party" who was driving by saw the trooper grappling with the suspect and stopped to help, eventually shooting and killing the suspect.
That civilian, using the wounded trooper's radio, was the one who alerted DPS to the shooting.
HA! I beat KevDen2005 with this one :D
