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4 Killed in Shooting During Eviction Notice Serving at Tucson Apartment Complex

Among those killed were a law enforcement official and an employee of the apartment complex

FILE - Tucson police vehicle.
Tucson Police Department via AP

Four people were killed, including a local law enforcement official, in a shooting Thursday at an apartment complex in southern Arizona, officials said.

Police in Tucson identified one of the victims as Pima County Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay and another as a employee of the apartment complex, KVOA-TV reported.

Martinez-Garibay was serving an eviction notice at the complex at the time of the shooting, but additional details were still unknown, KGUN-TV reported.

Pima County Board of Supervisors Chair Sharon Bronson extended sympathies on behalf of of the county to Martinez-Garibay's family, friends and colleagues.

“I am heartbroken at this terrible tragedy and I will keep Constable Martinez and all who knew and loved her in my thoughts,” she said in a statement.

After multiple mass shootings across the country from Buffalo to Uvalde and Tulsa, Oklahoma, some leaders have suggested arming doctors, teachers or even grocery store workers. "The idea of sending officers into an environment where there's an active shooter and then other folks with guns.. that's a recipe for disaster," says Brandon del Pozo, former chief of police in Burlington, Vermont.
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