Police are investigating a Thursday night confrontation at a north-side trailer park, where a man was shot to death while wielding a machete, authorities said.
The dead man was identified as Ricardo Navarette-Torres, 30, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, a Tucson Police Department spokesman, on Friday night.
At about 11 p.m., Tucson police responded to a shooting in the 3300 block of North Romero Road, where they located a man who had been shot. Officers provided first aid until members of the Tucson Fire Department arrived and took over, but the man was pronounced deceased at the scene, said Tucson Police spokeswoman, Sgt. Kimberly Bay.
The shooter stayed at the scene and was taken into custody without incident.
Detectives learned that a man and woman were driving to a a residence in the trailer park, when a man holding a machete approached them near the northern driveway. A confrontation took place at the vehicle and the man who was driving pulled out a gun, shooting the man who was holding the machete, Bay said.
No one else was injured in the altercation. Neither of the vehicle's occupants knew the man.
Detectives ask that anyone with information call 911 or 88-CRIME.
