PHOENIX — A man died in a shooting involving officers near 32nd Street and Bell Road in Phoenix early Thursday morning.
In a news conference on Thursday, Phoenix police said the man was holding a gun and refused commands to put the gun down.
No officers were hurt in the shooting.
Video from the scene showed a large police presence, which started around 2:30 a.m., including two mobile command vans for the police department.
Police said they received reports of a shooting in the area. When they arrived, they located a man matching the description provided to them. When officers approached him they say the man refused orders to stop and continued walking toward them while armed with a handgun.
That is when the shooting occurred. He has been identified as 22-year-old Aiden Piekarz.
Watch the police news conference from the scene in the video player below:
