Her name hasn't been released.īoth suspects are being held on a $2 million cash-only bond.
Police say the detective shot has been with the department for 19 years. He also claimed he did not know she was an officer. They've been booked into the Maricopa County Jail and are facing a number of charges.Īccording to court paperwork, Ware admitted to shooting the officer but said he did it after she shot at him. On Wednesday, Phoenix police officials named the suspects as 22-year-old Ahmani Gordon and 22-year-old Aaron Ware. LOUIS Detectives on Friday morning were shot at, and one was injured by broken glass, in The Ville neighborhood. The suspects then drove away from the area and were tracked by other police units to a home near 33rd Avenue and Baseline Road where they were both taken into custody. A Fairfax County detective shot a man in the Seven Corners area Tuesday night while trying to arrest him during an undercover drug investigation, police said. The detective was unable to fire her handgun because of her injuries, according to police. According to initial court hearings, the two suspects are accused of firing a total of approximately 19 shots at the detective. The two men then reportedly began shooting at the detective’s car striking her several times as she tried to exit the vehicle. One of the males then stood in front of her vehicle and another stood outside the passenger side door. Police say two men exited the vehicle and approached the detective while wearing masks and had guns drawn.Īs the suspects approached, the detective was able to see that they were armed and put on a ballistic vest, as well as draw her own gun. Moments later the same vehicle returned and stopped behind the detective. While the detective was stopped in her vehicle, a vehicle with two men inside slowed down as it passed the detective and continued down the road. Police say the detective's name will not be released as she "works in an undercover capacity and the release of her name would cause concerns for her safety."Īccording to police, the detective was in an unmarked vehicle conducting a follow-up investigation on a weapons crime. The detective was taken to a hospital with serious injuries but is now reportedly in stable condition. Police say the incident occurred near 43rd Avenue and Baseline Road around noon. His brothers pleaded guilty to their roles in the shooting.PHOENIX - A Phoenix police detective was shot several times during an incident in a West Valley neighborhood Tuesday.
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Michael Ford is set to go on trial in October. "They were hoping that there would be some sort of notoriety that would come out of this," Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said.
He then began firing at the building and at passing drivers, causing officers to return fire. Michael Ford asked his brother Malik to send video of the attack to the entertainment website, a detective testified Wednesday. Elijah Ford allegedly recorded his brother's "last will and testament" minutes before Malik Ford drove them to the police station. Police have said Malik Ford, 21, and Elijah Ford, 18, helped their brother Michael before and during the shootout and used their cellphones to record video of the gunfight. "What the Ford brothers precipitated was a tragedy involving some of the finest officers on the Prince George's County Police Department," the police chief said.ĭuring the exchange of gunfire that followed, Colson, an undercover narcotics officer, was dressed in plainclothes and stepped out of an unmarked car. Stawinski said the three suspects put Krauss and other officers in a bad situation. Michael Ford, 22, is accused of opening fire outside the police station after he told his brothers, Malik and Elijah Ford, he wanted to attack police. United fires athletic trainer for making ‘discriminatory hand gesture' in photo cop-shot-bergen.JPG A Bergen County prosecutors office detective was wounded in a shootout with a suspect outside of a Garfield Walmart on April 22, according to police. on March 18, 1997, undercover LAPD narcotics detective Frank Lyga shot and killed Kevin Gaines in what he claimed to be an act of self-defense.
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