Man brandishing shotgun shot, killed by UA police at UMC
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A University of Arizona police officer shot and killed 43-year-old Raul Marquez Jr. this morning after Marquez pointed a shotgun at him and refused to drop the weapon.
Tucson police spokesman Sgt. Decio Hopffer said the officer first encountered Marquez at about 4:50 a.m. after he spotted him driving a truck that bore a stolen license plate.
The officer tried to make a traffic stop but the truck continued on, and then stopped at the entrance of University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
The driver got out "brandishing a shotgun," Hopffer said in a written statement.
He said Marquez got out of the truck and pointed the weapon at University of Arizona police officer Jeff Wadleigh and refused the officer's orders to drop the weapon.
Wadleigh fired his duty weapon, striking Marquez.
Marquez was pronounced dead at 5:35 a.m.
At the request of UAPD, Tucson police homicide detectives are investigating the incident.
Wadleigh has been a UAPD officer since 2005, Hopffer said.
How much crap comes out of your typing is just amazing. And you call yourself logical.
It was a "suicide cop".
In the heart of everything nobody remembers... that we are all human.. we make mistakes in our lives. Some people can't retro back. It's a sickness in the blood. But We are HUMAN... He never killed anyone but killed himself slowly. He was a man with a huge heart. Only who was close knew. Remember even the bad the lonely and the ugly have loved ones and they suffer to.... so stop torturing him and let him rest and his family grieve in peace.