PUBLIC SAFETY BRIEFS
Police kill man who threw wrench at them
Deputies responding to a domestic disturbance Friday night in Buckeye fatally shot a man who threw a large wrench at them and then approached with a hammer.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office got a 911 call shortly before midnight about the disturbance near 209th Avenue and Narramore Road, in the Rainbow Valley area, according to a Sheriff ’s Office news release.
At the location, deputies made contact with a man identified as 39year-old Juan Torres in the backyard of a home. He threw a large wrench and struck one of the deputies, according to the release.
Torres then approached deputies with a hammer, and both deputies fired their guns and shot Torres, the release stated.
Torres was taken to a hospital, where he died, the release said.
The investigation is ongoing, sheriff’s officials said.
Pedestrian struck, killed in Phoenix
Phoenix police say a man driving a Jeep fatally struck a pedestrian crossing the road Friday evening.
Officials say Thomas Lynn Wygant, 33, was crossing the roadway midblock near 9400 N. Seventh St. about 10:54 p.m. when a 23-year-old man driving a 2005 Jeep Wrangler hit him while heading north.
Police say Wygant was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver, who remains unidentified, stayed at the scene, officials say. Investigators found neither speed nor impairment was a factor.
The investigation is ongoing.
2 wounded in Phoenix shooting after fight
Two people were shot and wounded Saturday morning in Phoenix as a result of an altercation, officials said.
Police said the shooting took place during an altercation between several people at an apartment in the area of 4200 North 35th Avenue.
“Shots were fired and two people, an 18-yearold male and a17-year-old female, were struck by the gunfire,” said Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.
Thompson said the shooting occurred at about 1 a.m.
Officials said the injuries do not appear to be life threatening, and police are investigating.
Train strikes man who was lying on tracks
A Peoria man was pronounced dead Friday morning after being struck by a train in Glendale, police said.
Glendale police officers responded to reports just before 3:30 a.m. of a man lying unresponsive on train tracks near 6300 NW Grand Ave., officials said.
There, they found 31year-old Anthony Lee Delgadillo, who had been struck by the train, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, Glendale police said.
Police determined the train was moving about 17 or 18 mph southeast bound when the engineer and conductor saw something lying across the tracks and not moving, which they “initially believed to be trash.”
The conductor blew the horn multiple times, but Delgadillo did not respond, according to police reports.
As they got closer, they determined Delgadillo was in fact a person and proceeded to “sound the horn and activate the emergency brakes”; however, the train was unable to stop in time, police said.
It is still unknown why Delgadillo was on the tracks, police said.
The investigation is ongoing.
— Staff reports