Phoenix police shoot suspect armed with knife approaching them

Police in Phoenix shot and seriously wounded a man they said came at them with a knife near a downtown-area hospital early Thursday.

BY KTAR NEWSROOM

Aug 17, 2017, 12:20 PM

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PHOENIX — Police in Phoenix shot and seriously wounded a man they said came at them with a knife near a downtown-area hospital early Thursday.

Sgt. Alan Pfohl said the unidentified man had already been shot with a bean bag-loaded stun gun but he kept approaching before an officer fired a service revolver.

“(The beanbags) did not have an effect on the suspect,” Pfohl said.

The 28-year-old had been causing a disturbance at Maricopa Medical Center at 24th and Roosevelt streets. Hospital personnel managed to get the man, who was waving a pair of butcher knives, they said, to leave the emergency room.

He wandered to an apartment complex that was close by and began knocking on a door.

Hospital workers called police. Officer found him at the apartments.

No other details were available.