Bodycam Footage Shows Moment Arizona Trooper is Shot By Suspect
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June 23,2023
Phoenix, Arizona — On Monday, June 19, 2023, shortly after 11:30 a.m. Trooper Sean Harkins stopped the driver near 21st Avenue and Thomas Road. The body-cam video of Trooper Sean Harkins shows him walking up to a dark-colored Kia four-door sedan. That’s when the suspect, identified as 29-year-old Luis Mateo Jacobo Borja, leans out his window, says, “Gotta go bro,” and shoots Harkins in the leg. A startled Hawkins stumbles to the ground before retreating to the side of his own vehicle to report that he had been shot and that Borja had fled south on 21st Avenue.
He grabs what appears to be a tourniquet from a recess on the driver's side door when another law enforcement officer arrives to render aid. The officer repeatedly tells Hawkins to "stay with me" as he helps him lie down with his back to the ground and reports on the radio that Hawkins had been struck in the left leg and requested immediate assistance. Harkins was taken to the hospital and later released that night. Police say Borja shot at police twice before he crashed into a wall near 36th Avenue and Thomas Road. One officer was hospitalized after being hit by shrapnel but was released Monday night. Borja was found shot to death in his car. Police did not disclose whether the wound was self-inflicted or caused by the officer who shot at him with a rifle.
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