1 man sent to hospital after officer-involved shooting near A Mountain

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) - One man is in the hospital after an officer-involved shooting in the 100 block of South Bella Vista Drive, according to Sgt. Pete Dugan, a TPD spokesman.

Dugan said TPD received a welfare-check call at around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13. He said the caller reported a man in his late 20s "acting erratically" inside a home.

The TPD officer who responded to the call saw the man in front of the home armed with a knife.

"He immediately began giving commands to that person to drop the knife," Dugan said. "During that altercation, while he was trying to get him to drop the knife, shots were fired."

The officer involved was not injured. Dugan said the officer who fired his weapon has advanced training in crisis intervention.

The man's condition was not immediately available, only that it had been stabilized.

Dugan said more details will be released as the investigation continues and information becomes available.

"The homicide unit will look into the criminal investigation of the incident to find out exactly what happened," Dugan said. "Our office of internal affairs will also conduct a parallel administrative investigation to determine the acts of department personnel, which is standard protocol in all officer-involved shootings."