PHOENIX — A male suspect and another man were hospitalized following an apartment complex shooting in west Phoenix on Friday morning, authorities said.
The Phoenix Police Department responded to a shooting around 10:46 a.m. at a complex located near 99th Avenue and Van Buren Street.
Police found a 28-year-old man with a gunshot wound and transported him to a nearby hospital with “serious life-threatening injuries.”
While police were conducting their early investigations, they received a 911 call alerting them to the same cross streets in Tolleson. This call was about a 23-year-old man also suffering from a gunshot wound.
Through a joint effort, Phoenix and Tolleson police confirmed the man they responded to in the 911 call was “related to the earlier shooting.”
The unidentified man was taken to a nearby hospital also with life-threatening injuries, but Phoenix police said his injuries came from “a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
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After taking over the investigation, detectives learned the suspect broke into the man’s residence and pulled out a gun.
He proceeded to shoot the man “multiple times” before turning the gun on himself.
The suspect survived the self-inflicted gun shot and drove off to near the intersection of 99th Avenue and Van Buren Street before he was found by police and taken to the hospital.
Police said the man will be booked into jail once released.
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