Tucson police officers shot a fleeing man who exchanged gunfire with them Saturday afternoon, at the same address where a homicide occurred the night before, a police spokesman said. The man sustained life-threatening injuries.
Neither of the two officers was struck or injured in the exchange, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, the spokesman, who gave the following account late Saturday:
A 911 caller reported suspicious activity in the 0-100 block of West Prince Road, west of North Stone Avenue, at the mobile home park where a 26-year-old man was shot to death the night before. The caller said a man and a woman were standing around near the location of Friday night's shooting, and looking at the ground, which seemed suspicious.
Two officers arrived and found such a man and woman shortly before 5 p.m. They got out of their car and tried to talk to the man. "He immediately ran from the officers," and during a short foot chase, "gunfire was exchanged between the suspect and both officers." Dugan said it is too early in the investigation to say who fired first.
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The officers rendered first aid to the wounded man, whose age and name were not released, until the Tucson Fire Department got there and took him to a hospital.
The names of the two officers also weren't immediately released.
In Friday night's shooting, officers were sent to the mobile home park about 11:30 p.m. to check on a man who was lying in the parking lot. When they arrived they found 26-year-old Richard Fries fatally shot.
Dugan said late Saturday that he didn't know whether homicide detectives had identified any potential suspects in the homicide.
Earlier in the day, he had said in a news release that "there is no suspect in custody. Specific details are being withheld while they attempt to locate other witnesses believed to be at the scene when the shooting took place."
Investigators ask that anyone with information about Friday night's homicide — and anyone who was on West Prince Road shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday and might have seen or heard something useful to investigators — call 911 or 88-CRIME.
West Prince was expected to stay closed between Stone and North Oracle Road into early morning Sunday as officers continue their investigation.
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