One person is dead after a shooting involving an Oro Valley police officer in the parking lot of a busy Wal-Mart shopping center, at North First Avenue and East Wetmore Road.
Police were called to the shopping center shortly after 5 p.m. for a reported shooting near a store neighboring the Wal-Mart. When officers arrived they found several undercover Oro Valley police officers at the scene.
Preliminary information indicates that a shooting occurred between an officer and another person. The other person was killed. The police officer was not injured.
A vehicle involved in the incident crashed near a store in the shopping center.
Officials at the scene said Oro Valley police officers conducting an ongoing investigation into drug activity at Canyon del Oro High School were involved in the shooting.
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The officers followed the car of a suspect into the Wal-Mart parking lot and that's where the shooting took place.
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