Tucson police ID officer who fatally shot man on Tucson's south side

The Tucson Police Department released the name of the officer who fatally shot a man they say was linked to the shooting of his estranged wife. 

Officer Alexis Lujan, who has been with the Tucson Police Department two and a half years, shot an killed Andrew Scott Kislek, 34, early Monday, police said.

Kislek had followed his estranged wife to her job at the Tucson Veterans Affairs Medical Center that morning and hit her car with his car multiple times, the Tucson Police Department said. Kislek then got out of his car and shot at his estranged wife's car, striking her, police said.

Kislek then left the hospital parking lot and Officer Lujan stopped him for a traffic violation just after 6:30 a.m. Monday, at the Circle K at 3301 S. 6th Avenue, police said.

Officers at the hospital scene learned the suspect they were looking for had left in a silver car, the same one Lujan had just stopped, though Lujan didn't know he was a shooting suspect at the time of the stop, police said.

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Police said there was a confrontation between Lujan and Kislek which led the officer to shoot his weapon. Kislek was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Tucson police did not say at what point officer Lujan knew the person she had pulled over was the shooting suspect. 

The woman at the veteran's hospital was transported to the Banner University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, police said.

Tucson Police Department’s violent crimes unit and sergeants and detectives with the department's office of professional standards are each investigating the incident, which is standard procedure, Gradillas said.

Police are investigating whether Kislek fired his handgun before he was shot and killed by the officer, Sgt. Richard Gradillas, a Tucson Police Department spokesman said on Monday.