Overview

• Officers responded around 8 p.m. to a reported fight at an apartment complex near 83rd Avenue and Indian School Road.
• Phoenix police said they saw a man with a knife holding a woman on the ground and ordered him to stop.
• After the man refused commands, officers fired, the woman was taken to safety, and the man died at the scene.
• Police reported no officers were injured, and investigators shut down nearby traffic while collecting evidence.
• The shooting is the 37th law-enforcement encounter with gunfire in the Phoenix area this year and the 70th statewide, according to the outlet’s tally.