Amazon worker shot, colleague returns fire killing suspect outside Arizona facility: Police - ABC News

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An Amazon declaration idiosyncratic was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries aft a gunman allegedly opened occurrence astatine an Amazon installation successful Arizona Wednesday, according to police.

The alleged gunman was changeable and killed by a 2nd Amazon declaration idiosyncratic who returned fire, investigators said.

The incidental occurred successful the parking batch of an Amazon Flex installation successful Chandler, Arizona, astir 9:30 a.m. section time, constabulary said.

Police are investigating a deadly shooting astatine an Amazon Flex installation successful Chandler, Ariz., connected Dec. 14, 2022.

The unidentified fishy fired aggregate rounds astatine 1 of the contracted workers earlier a 2nd declaration idiosyncratic returned fire, Sgt. Jason McClimans of the Chandler Police Department told reporters astatine a quality conference.

The unidentified wounded idiosyncratic was taken to a section infirmary successful "life-threatening condition," according to McClimans. The suspect, who was not employed by Amazon, was declared dormant astatine the scene, constabulary said.

The 2nd unidentified contracted idiosyncratic who fired astatine the fishy was cooperating with the investigation, McClimans said.

"We bash not cognize what led up to this," helium said. "We judge this was confined to 1 fishy only."

The Amazon installation and section schools were locked down erstwhile the shooting took place, according to police.

"We weren't definite if this was an progressive shooter, but wrong 20 minutes, we were capable to assistance those lockdowns," McClimans said.

Bryton Bobbitt, a contracted Amazon worker, told ABC affiliate KNXV helium was getting acceptable for a mean workday erstwhile the shooting occurred.

"All of a sudden, conscionable perceive pop, pop, pop. [I] commencement looking around, similar wherever did that travel from? A fewer of our different workers started running," helium told the affiliate. "I was already successful my enactment van, I enactment it successful cogwheel and tried to find a harmless spot and got retired of here."

A spokesperson from Amazon told ABC News that operations astatine the installation were suspended pursuing the incidental and each employees and partners were sent location with pay.

"We're profoundly saddened by this senseless enactment of unit successful our parking lot. We're moving intimately with instrumentality enforcement arsenic they analyse and are focused connected supporting our squad during this hard time," Richard Rocha, an Amazon spokesperson, said successful a statement.

The probe was ongoing.

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