Flagstaff police shoot, kill armed man in parking lot

PHOENIX — Police in Flagstaff shot and killed a man in a store parking lot who had fired at them late Thursday.

Sean Brady, 29, of Flagstaff, used a handgun to take shots at three officers at a Walmart near Interstate 40 and Fourth Street shortly before 10 p.m.

Sgt. Cory Runge said the department had received reports of a man waving a gun in the parking lot.

When the officers arrived, Brady was sitting in a truck “brandishing a weapon,” they said. The officers called out to Brady to show his hands and get out of the truck.

Instead, they said, he pulled the trigger of his weapon.

Police returned fire, killing him. Brady died at the scene.

Runge said officers found two rifles, a handgun, boxes of ammunition and several spent bullet casings in Brady’s truck.

The officers, none of them injured, were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by a multi-agency law enforcement team. That is standard procedure after an officer-involved shooting.

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