Two Tucson police officers shot and wounded an armed man who refused to obey police orders outside a Midtown strip club early Saturday, shortly after a separate shooting at the club, a police spokesman said.
Officers Steven Crean and John Murphy shot Adam Lopez, 25, in the parking lot of Ten's Show Club, 5120 E. Speedway, police said. Lopez is being treated at a local hospital for injuries described as serious but not life-threatening.
Meanwhile, Alvin Hill, 29, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with a shooting inside the club.
That shooting victim, whose identity has not been released, is also being treated for serious though not life-threatening wounds, police said.
Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a police spokesman, gave the following account:
Officers Crean and Murphy were on duty early Saturday with a special enforcement unit targeting violent crime and street racing along the Speedway corridor when they were alerted to a shooting inside Ten's Show Club at 1:57 a.m.
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Stationed nearby, the officers walked from another parking lot on East Speedway to the lot at the strip club.
"When they got here, there's a bunch of people running out," Pacheco said.
Lopez was among the crowd of people fleeing the club.
Armed with a handgun, Lopez refused to follow police orders, Pacheco said.
Lopez had the gun in his hand, and the officers were concerned about the safety of the crowd in the parking lot, Pacheco said.
He was shot by both officers. Pacheco would not say how many times he was shot.
Inside the club, officers found the other shooting victim.
A fight earlier in the club escalated into the shooting, Pacheco said, and set off the evening's chain of events.
"We ended up with 25 witnesses," Pacheco said. "That's just the people who stuck around."
Hill was arrested a few blocks south on Rosemont Boulevard on suspicion of two counts of aggravated assault and is being held in the Pima County jail.
Hill was previously charged with drug possession in September, according to court records.
Crean and Murphy have been reassigned, which is routine in officer-involved shootings, while the Pima County Attorney's Office investigates whether their use of force was justified and the Police Department inquiry board investigates whether the shooting was within department policy.
It was the third officer-involved shooting this year for Tucson police, the department said.
Crean graduated from the Southern Arizona Law Enforcement Training Center in 2006 and has worked for TPD for two and a half years, Pacheco said, and Murphy has been with the department for about 18 months.
An unidentified man at Ten's Show Club said, "No comment," when contacted Saturday about the incidents. No one else from the club could be reached for comment.
Local businesses said there hasn't been any trouble on the block, though Pacheco said police have been called to the club on other occasions.
Police records indicate 213 calls were made to the 5100 block of Speedway last year, more than half of which were to one address.
"We ended up with 25 witnesses. That's just the people who stuck around."
Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, Tucson Police Department spokesman
