BUCKEYE, Ariz. - An officer with the Buckeye Police Department shot and killed a man attempting to kill his father on Sunday, Dec.
26, the department said.An officer responded to an area near Park Meadows Drive and Verrado Way around 3 p.m. after several 911 calls came in reporting gunshots.When he arrived, he saw two men fighting on a sidewalk."The father was on the ground bleeding, and the son was kneeling over him with a knife in his hand," police said in a news release. "The officer gave verbal commands to drop the knife.
The son did not comply, and the officer shot him."The suspect died at the scene, and the victim is at the hospital being treated for gunshot wounds.