Police are investigating a shooting involving an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer early Sunday morning on Tucson’s north side.
The incident occurred at 1 a.m. near the eastbound Interstate-10 frontage on Commerce Drive when a sergeant and two DPS troopers were investigating reports of street racing, Sgt. Kimberly Bay, a Tucson Police Department spokesman, wrote in a news release Sunday.
Once they arrived, the law enforcement officers began clearing the area using the public address system on their marked vehicles and the overhead lights.
One trooper on the frontage road was standing outside his car when a vehicle came toward him.
The driver failed to obey verbal commands to halt and the trooper fired a shot at the vehicle, Bay reported.
The trooper suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital for evaluation.
About an hour later, Tucson police stopped a vehicle with a bullet strike on it near East Speedway and North Stone Avenue, Bay wrote. The occupants of the car were detained without incident.
Tucson police are investigating the incident, while DPS conducts a separate administrative investigation of the trooper’s actions.
