Arizona man saves a state trooper’s life after an ambush on I-10 following a “shots fired’ radio call that led the officer to a crashed car and a mortally-injured woman:
[Arizona Department of Public Safety director Col. Frank Milstead] said as the trooper began blocking off lanes of traffic and laying out flares, he was ambushed by the suspect.
The suspect shot the trooper in the right shoulder, and was “getting the better of the trooper” in a fight that immediately followed.
Milstead said the suspect was on top of the trooper striking his head on the pavement.
According to Milstead, a man traveling westbound on I-10 with his wife in the car, pulled over to help the trooper.
The man retrieved a gun from his car and fired at the suspect after the suspect refused to stop attacking the trooper, Milstead said.
The suspect died as a result of the shooting and the man called for help using the trooper’s radio, according to Milstead.
In a news conference from the hospital where the trooper is being cared for, Milstead thanked the man who stopped to help.
If Nancy Nord Bence had her way, they’d still be scraping the trooper’s brains off the pavement.
Good job; with one critique. His pistol should have been on him. “In the car” is usually “too far”.
Also, this is an example of the *only* acceptable application of a death penalty.
Glad to see things ended reasonably well, but the question that comes to mind for me is what would have happened if the guy getting his head smashed on the pavement was not an officer. Would the blue line have stood by him?
No accusation, just wondering.