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Trooper Shot in ‘Ambush’ Attack on Arizona Highway; Passerby Fatally Shoots Suspect
ktla ^ | 01/02/2017

Posted on 01/12/2017 12:33:28 PM PST by BenLurkin

An armed passerby fatally shot a suspect who had opened fire on a trooper in an apparent ambush attack as the law enforcement officer, who was responding to a shots fired call, stopped to investigate a car crash along Interstate 10 near Tonopah on Thursday.

The incident started shortly before 4:30 a.m. with a 911 call from a driver east of California who said somebody shot at his car from the median, television station KPHO in Phoenix reported.

According to Col. Frank Milstead, the director of DPS, the trooper was responding to the shots fired call when he came upon a single-vehicle rollover wreck near Tonopah. A woman had been ejected from that vehicle.

The trooper immediately stopped and began laying out flares.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; bang; banglist; guns; lawenforcement; obamasfault; police; secondamendment; tonopah
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To: righttackle44

Don’t need a permit to carry concealed in Arizona either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry


21 posted on 01/12/2017 12:53:38 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if there was something in the car that they were trying to keep people away from. Looks like both occupants of the car are dead.


22 posted on 01/12/2017 12:56:02 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: RetiredArmy

We don’t need concealed carry permits here in Arizona.

I still keep mine from Washington for sentimental reasons, but not needed here.


23 posted on 01/12/2017 12:56:31 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: RetiredArmy
The state does not have open carry does it? So, that means that if it doesn’t and you are packing, you have to have a permit, right?

Arizona has had permitless open carry since 1912, and passed Constitutional Carry in 2010.

You may obtain a concealed license in Arizona, in order to use it for reciprocity concealed carry in other states, but you do not need a permit to carry openly or concealed in Arizona.

24 posted on 01/12/2017 12:57:23 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: righttackle44; RetiredArmy

Arizona is a Constitutional Carry state. Citizens have the option to obtain a CC Permit, but do not have to. Open and concealed carry are legal in AZ without a permit.


25 posted on 01/12/2017 12:58:08 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: blam

Back in the 70’s in Texas, a deer hunter put a .243 round through the head of a perp that had just shot a DPS officer.

NRA gave that deer hunter a new gun.


26 posted on 01/12/2017 1:00:00 PM PST by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Reno89519; samtheman
 
 
Way better detail here w/ video, photos, tweets, radio audio - the works -
 
http://www.azfamily.com/story/34243045/trooper-shot-while-responding-to-single-vehicle-crash-suspect-shot-by-another-driver
 
 

27 posted on 01/12/2017 1:00:43 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: RetiredArmy
A similar incident happened in Pennsylvania years ago.An escaped convict took a trooper's gun from him and was standing over the trooper's body firing shot after shot into him.A deer hunter came out of the woods at that moment,saw what was happening and shot the convict right between the shoulder blades killing him instantly.The local prosecutor wanted to indict but hundreds of cops from all over showed up at the courthouse and “dissuaded” him.
28 posted on 01/12/2017 1:02:35 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: BenLurkin

And another story:

http://www.cbs5az.com/story/34243045/trooper-ambushed-shot-in-tonopah-expected-to-be-ok-suspect-shot-and-killed-by-passer-by?autostart=true


29 posted on 01/12/2017 1:04:22 PM PST by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: RetiredArmy

I’d be surprised if a permit is needed in AZ to have a pistol in your car.


30 posted on 01/12/2017 1:05:10 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Freemeorkillme

Why would skin color be mentioned?

Who gives a crap?


31 posted on 01/12/2017 1:09:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Garbage media’s propensity for mentioning race when it fits the left’s narrative.

I could care less, personally, but I’ve noticed it.

FReeRegards,
FMOKM


32 posted on 01/12/2017 1:20:18 PM PST by Freemeorkillme
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To: BenLurkin

#thanksbarack


33 posted on 01/12/2017 1:22:07 PM PST by SteveinSATX (Anti-liberalism 24/7)
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To: blam

Happy Ending.


34 posted on 01/12/2017 1:30:34 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: BenLurkin

Good. We need MORE of this.


35 posted on 01/12/2017 1:34:19 PM PST by ZULU (Particular circumstances can never be used to justify an act that is intrinsically evil.)
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To: RetiredArmy
Paraphrasing General Patton,

"I want to find that civilian..... and pin a medal on him".


36 posted on 01/12/2017 1:39:02 PM PST by capt. norm (Capt norm)
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To: Reno89519

“KTLA seriously needs an editor to proof postings! That one is seriously messed up and confusing. I think my 9-year old could have written a better article.”

A common problem throughout the media these days. I have to read and re-read stories, wondering how they ever got past a copy editor. I suspect such trivial things as proper grammar and coherent sentence structure are electives in today’s journalism schools!

News used to be a recitation of facts - who, what, when, where, how. The reader was assumed to have the education level and the necessary logic to make their own decision about the story. Oh, how times have changed! Now, we are lucky to get half the facts, poorly presented, with an editorial bias inherent in even the simplest of pieces


37 posted on 01/12/2017 1:39:27 PM PST by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know Who holds the future!)
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To: righttackle44

You can carry a weapon concealed, in AZ, without a permit. Many of us have a CCW, so that we can carry out of state, in those states that have reciprocity with AZ.


38 posted on 01/12/2017 1:40:59 PM PST by barney10
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To: RetiredArmy

You don’t have to have a carry permit to have a gun just as long as it isn’t concealed.


39 posted on 01/12/2017 1:41:00 PM PST by tiki
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To: BenLurkin

I would like to know if this is another attempted execution inspired by B.O.


40 posted on 01/12/2017 2:30:50 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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