Man dies in shootout with Pinetop-Lakeside police

Pinetop-Lakeside police fatally shot a 46-year-old man in a gunbattle overnight that left an officer wounded and a police dog injured, officials say.

Police in the east-central Arizona community identified the dead man as Glenn Southwood Jr.

Police say Southwood’s mother called the Pinetop-Lakeside Police Departwood, non-emergency hotline at 10:12 p.m. Sunday to report that her son was intoxicated and had threatened to shoot his wife. The woman said her daughter-inlaw might have locked herself in a bathroom.

Officers went to a home in the 1900 block of West Gardner Lane and spoke with a man who appeared to be Southwood. Police said that during a verbal confrontation, the man pulled out a gun and began shooting at officers.

Police fired back at Southwood, and he ducked into the house, where he barricaded himself inside, according to a police Facebook post.

One of the police officers had been shot in the leg, right above the knee. A police sergeant tended to his wound until he could be taken to a hospital.

At about 3 a.m., after multiple unsuccessful attempts to connect with Southment’s police said a K-9 and SWAT team went into the house to search for him. Almost immediately, the K-9 was attacked by a pit bull, and the pit bull was shot dead by an officer, police said.

Southwood was dead by the time he was located on a side porch of his home at 3:26 a.m, officials said.

The officer who was shot was said to be in stable condition Monday and was expected to recover.