{"id":158990,"date":"2025-08-19T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:03:11","slug":"police-shoot-man-with-hatchet-outside-ihop-in-central-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158990\/","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot man with hatchet outside IHOP in central Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/80537335007-uscp-7-zjdyvswntz-10-owdn-4-y-2-original.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What to know about Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Police Department is one of the largest police agencies in the U.S. Here&#8217;s what to know about the Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers shot a man after he exited an IHOP restaurant with a hatchet in central Phoenix on Aug. 19, according to the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was first reported by Phoenix police on social media around 5 a.m., near 19th and Northern avenues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a call for service for a trespassing at the IHOP behind us,&#8221; said Sgt. Lorraine Fernandez, a spokesperson for the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>An IHOP employee called police to report a trespassing at 4 a.m., Fernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>While the police were on their way, the call was updated to include that the man was cutting himself inside the restaurant, according to Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived and made contact with the man just outside the IHOP, she said. Police tried to de-escalate the situation, Fernandez said, but the man ignored officers&#8217; orders, prompting them to use less-than-lethal weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The man continued to walk toward the officers, and a police officer with a rifle shot the man, according to Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Police rendered first aid before Phoenix Fire Department personnel arrived and took the man to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The man was still in critical condition as of the last update Fernandez received. Police did not release the man&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>No police officers were injured during the shooting, according to Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>The area around 20th and Northern avenues remained closed to traffic as police continued to investigate the shooting, Phoenix police stated on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhoenixPolice\/status\/1957774609258086501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X, formerly Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, check back to <a href=\"http:\/\/azcentral.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">azcentral.com<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Rey Covarrubias Jr. reports breaking news for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Email him at:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rcovarrubias@gannett.com\">rcovarrubias@gannett.com<\/a>, and connect with him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reycjraz\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@reycjraz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Threads<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/reycjraz.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReyCJrAZ\">X (formerly Twitter)<\/a>\u00a0at @ReyCJrAZ.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know about Phoenix Police Department The Phoenix Police Department is one of the largest police agencies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[567,7285,5229,931,5643,1587,8746,4446,6006,3040,2693,8578,5375,92284,40275,3228,2936,425,728,451,635,7233,50,940,450,457,1589,11311,7207,40277,3677,6003,92283,646,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8572,8576,7223],"class_list":{"0":"post-158990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-abuse","9":"tag-accident","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-and","12":"tag-arizona","13":"tag-az","14":"tag-az-now","15":"tag-death","16":"tag-death-u0026-tragedy","17":"tag-department","18":"tag-disaster","19":"tag-disaster-accident-and-tragedy","20":"tag-enforcement","21":"tag-ihop","22":"tag-involved","23":"tag-law","24":"tag-law-enforcement","25":"tag-local","26":"tag-local-news","27":"tag-negative","28":"tag-new","29":"tag-new-visitors-az","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-now","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-negative","34":"tag-phoenix","35":"tag-phoenix-police-department","36":"tag-police","37":"tag-police-involved-shootings","38":"tag-shootings","39":"tag-tragedy","40":"tag-trespassing","41":"tag-u0026","42":"tag-united-states","43":"tag-united-states-of-america","44":"tag-unitedstates","45":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","46":"tag-us","47":"tag-usa","48":"tag-violence","49":"tag-violence-u0026-abuse","50":"tag-visitors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}