An Apache County sheriff's deputy was shot in the head and is in guarded condition. It happened during a shoot-out with a man with militia ties. That man, William Cooper, was shot and killed.
It happened late Monday night in the small town of Eagar, Arizona ... 230 miles northeast of Phoenix.
Deputies were serving William Cooper an arrest warrant for assaulting one of his neighbors. The federal government also wanted him for tax evasion.
Cooper had warned officers and federal agents that if they ever came for him, he would not go down without a gun battle.
On his website, Bill Cooper claimed the federal government has targeted his family. He said the nazi Gestapo had threatened him. He believed in UFO’s and he didn't believe in paying taxes.
Cooper wrote if authorities ever tried to arrest him, they would be met with armed resistance.
He ran a small radio show called An Hour of the Time - out of Eagar, Arizona. The focus was predominantly anti-government. Cooper was well known in militia circles.
Timothy McVeigh was a fan of Cooper's, he even reportedly tried to recruit cooper to help him at one point before the Oklahoma City bombing.
But early Tuesday morning - deputies had a warrant - but as promised, Cooper wasn't going quietly. Cooper was shot and killed.
Apache County Deputy Rob Marinez took two bullets to the head. He's expected to survive.
The deputy used to live in Mesa and friends there say he's the sort of cop you want to have around if things get tough.
Deputy Marinez is married and has three children.
In 1995, after the OKC Bombing, he was named as the most dangerous talk-show host in America by William Jefferson Clinton, the impeached, rapist, traitorous former President of the United States who once thanked David Rockefeller with profuse tears for helping him (more like "making") him President, so as to carry out the NWO agenda.
Bill regarded that pronouncement as the finest compliment ever paid to him.