A 62-year-old man wielding a baseball bat was shot and killed by police officers inside his home Monday evening.
The incident began around 7:10 p.m. Jan. 25, when police received a call from a woman inside a home in the 10600 block of West Via Montoya Drive, west of Lake Pleasant Road between Deer Valley and Pinnacle Peak roads, reporting an argument.
Officers arrived within five minutes of the call and encountered Richard Allan Dodds waving a baseball bat, police spokesperson Jay Davies said.
“When Dodds refused the officers' commands to drop the bat and began to charge at them, one of the officers deployed his taser at him and two officers, David Lebo and Jonathon Moore, fired their guns at Dodds,” Davies said.
Dodds was airlifted to a Valley hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.
In addition to Dodds' wife, present and residing in the home during the shooting was the couple's daughter, son-in-law and their 9-year-old daughter.
Dodds' wife told police that they had been arguing over finances.
“None of the other family members or police personnel were injured during the incident,” Davies said.
Lebo has been with the police department for more than four years and Moore for more than two years.
Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings.
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