CRIME Arizona Teen Ambushes State Trooper with AK-47 in Phoenix Residential Area

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Arizona Teen Ambushes State Trooper with AK-47 in Phoenix Residential Area

17-year-old Luis German Espinoza Acuna was arrested on Thursday after ambushing a state trooper in Phoenix. Law enforcement is still searching for the driver of the vehicle. The DPS detective was not injured in the shooting. Department of Public Safety Director Heston Silbert said the teen was...

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Arizona Teen Ambushes State Trooper with AK-47 in Phoenix Residential Area

17-year-old Luis German Espinoza Acuna was arrested on Thursday after ambushing a state trooper in Phoenix.

Law enforcement is still searching for the driver of the vehicle.



The DPS detective was not injured in the shooting.

Department of Public Safety Director Heston Silbert said the teen was taken into custody after the shooting today.

KTAR reported:

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Authorities issued a Blue Alert on Thursday after a shooting involving an Arizona state trooper in a Phoenix residential area.

One suspect was in custody and another was at-large after the incident near 37th Avenue and Portland Street, Department of Public Safety Director Heston Silbert said during a press conference.

Around 9 a.m., a teenage male got out of a car and fired multiple shots with an AK-47 assault rifle at a DPS detective in a vehicle, who returned fire, Silbert said.

The suspected shooter, identified as 17-year-old Luis German Espinoza Acuna, was taken into custody and the weapon was seized, but the search for the driver, believed to be a Hispanic male in his late teens, continues. No injuries were reported.

“There was no question, it was an ambush,” Silbert said.

 

[blackjeep]

This kind of lawlessness is happening waaaay too much these days.
I'm not comfortable with that OR with the staunch measures required to curtail it.

 

[Lone_Hawk]

The Marxist created this situation, and it is only going to get worse.

 

[night driver]

Detective needs more range time.

Didn't even hit the kid

 

[mbabulldog]

Detective needs more range time.

Didn't even hit the kid

Detective, in a vehicle, against an AK.
I'll give him some slack...

 

[EMICT]

Gangs need to be designated as terrorists if their existence is based on criminal activity. I know this is a slippery slope, but this stuff needs to be nipped in the bud.

 

[Dennis Olson]

Shoulda gone up to the little bastard and turned his head into a canoe. A week of that kind of thing and attacks on police would stop.

 

[Zahra]

I'm very thankful the officer wasn't hurt (this time)! It would be good to see body cam footage to find out how he managed to take Acuna into custody despite his having the AK. At least the bastard is in jail instead of dead, so there won't be any protests about this one anywhere.

 

[Dennis Olson]

This was a detective. They generally don't use bodycams. Those are for uniformed officers.

 

[dstraito]

The war has started.

That fact is obsfuscated by a media glorify people like the shooter as a peaceful protest.

 

[Tristan]

And yet people say things like "If this gets started..."

It's already started.

It's just not wide-scale, yet.

Yet.

And I have to say, I sincerely hope and pray it doesn't become so...