One person was killed and a DEA agent was wounded while authorities were serving a search warrant at a house on Tucson’s south side Thursday morning.
Details remain sparse in the shooting that occurred about 11:20 a.m. in a neighborhood near South Kino Parkway and East 36th Street, close to Pueblo Gardens Park.
A Tucson police officer tapes off a section Pueblo Gardens Park Thursday following. shooting in which a person was killed and a DEA agent was wounded.
The wounded agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Response Team was assisting the gang unit from the ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Department of Public Safety serve a search warrant at a house in the 2200 block of South Forgeus Avenue when the shooting occurred, Raul Garcia, a spokesman for the DPS said in a news release.
The search was part of an ongoing criminal investigation, the release said.
An agent was struck when gunfire erupted as the house was entered, the release said.
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The unidentified agent sustained “non-life-threatening injuries.â€
One person in the house was killed. No details about the person was released.
Law enforcement from multiple local, state and federal agencies swarmed the neighborhood immediately after the shooting. A law enforcement helicopter circled the neighborhood and several streets surrounding the park were closed to traffic for hours.
The ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ Department of Public Safety is the lead agency investigating the shooting.
No details about the larger investigation that prompted the search was released Thursday.
One person was killed and a DEA agent was wounded in a shooting Thursday morning while authorities were serving a search warrant at a house on Tucson’s south side.
