A man who threatened to kill himself and another person in his apartment northwest of Tucson was shot and wounded by police early Tuesday morning after a 10-hour standoff, authorities said.
The standoff with the unidentified man started about 2 p.m. at an apartment complex in the 4700 block of West Linda Vista Boulevard, near North Camino de Oeste when deputies responded to a call about an armed man making threats of suicide, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
Deputies quickly learned that another person was being prevented from leaving the apartment. That person was successfully rescued from the second story unit’s balcony and nearby residents were evacuated.
Negotiators were in contact with the man and tried to persuade him to surrender. At 5:18 p.m., however, the man began to shoot his weapon indiscriminately from the apartment and continued to do so over the course of approximately ten hours, the release said.Â
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Shortly after midnight, the man exited his unit a second time and started to fire rounds. Members of the Pima Regional SWAT team returned fire, striking him.
The man was in stable condition at a hospital as of Tuesday afternoon, the department said.
The shooting is being investigated by the Pima Regional Critical Incident Team, a multi-agency task force that handles local officer-involved shootings. The Tucson Police Department is the lead investigating agency.
No neighbors nor officers were wounded.
