State Glance
Police: Shooting in Glendale follows Phoenix carjacking
PHOENIX — Phoenix and Glendale police are investigating a carjacking and a subsequent shooting that police say apparently involved the same suspects.
Police say a car was stolen at gunpoint in Phoenix early Friday morning and that a short time later a young man was wounded when someone in the stolen car fired shots at a vehicle in Glendale.
Phoenix police later tried to stop a vehicle and the occupants fled on foot.
Glendale police Officer Tiffany Smith says the shooting victim’s wounds aren’t life-threatening.
Phoenix police Lt. Wayne Dillon says the incidents appeared to be random acts of violence.
Man sentenced in hatchet killing of former houseguest
KINGMAN — A Kingman man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in the hatchet killing of a former houseguest during a fight.
The Kingman Daily Miner reports that 29-year-old Joshua Matthew McCoy was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in February to second-degree murder in the killing of Gregory Thomas Godsil.
McCoy bludgeoned Godsil with a hatchet, striking him in the head. McCoy then wrapped the body in plastic and was trying to bury it in his backyard when his girlfriend called police.
Godsil had been allowed to live in McCoy’s garage for a week in exchange for mechanical work.
McCoy changed the locks, but Godsil returned to kick the door in.
McCoy was originally charged with first-degree murder.
He was credited with 588 days served in custody.
Minor injuries after collision involving police vehicle
QUEEN CREEK — The Gila River Police Department says one of its officers and another driver suffered minor injuries in a threevehicle collision in Queen Creek in southeastern Maricopa County.
Officer Caroline Brown says the officer was driving home after work in a takehome police vehicle Friday morning when it first collided with a pickup making a turn and then with another vehicle.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the wreck, and MCSO spokesman Joaquin Enrique said no information is immediately available on possible infractions.