Defendant Essa Williams' attorney claimed that his client was acting in self defense when he shot a Phoenix Police Officer Tyler Moldovan.

Phoenix authorities identified a man killed in a June 26 police shooting as Xavier Alexander Aguirre. Aguirre, 22, was holding a knife and chasing another man down a driveway when an officer shot him,

Chandler police officers were involved in a critical incident while working an investigation in Tempe on Friday night.