Slaying victim, suspect identified
Tucson police arrested a man on suspicion of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend Monday night.
Stacy Otis Kelley Jr. was booked into the Pima County jail, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
The victim has been identified as Kimberly Cornwell, 22.
Dugan gave the following account:
At about 7:30 p.m. Monday, officers responded to a report of a possible shooting at a house in the 7700 block of East Vancouver Place, north of East Escalante and west of South Pantano Roads.
When officers arrived, they found a vehicle parked in front of the house. A woman, in the passengerβs seat, had obvious signs of gunshot trauma. A man was sitting in the driverβs seat next to her. He was taken into custody while paramedics assisted the woman. Cornwell was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was not injured.
The victim and the suspect were in a romantic relationship, but did not live together.
The couple had argued outside the house before the shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME.
Man shot by police brandished BB gun
A man who was shot and wounded by Tucson police officers Tuesday had brandished a BB gun at them, investigators later learned.
Carlos Alegria, 41, is in stable condition at a hospital. Once he is released, he will be booked into the Pima County jail on suspicion of aggravated assault, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, a Tucson police spokesman, on Wednesday night.
On Tuesday at about 9:30 a.m., four officers responded to a 911 call about a man with a knife who was threatening construction workers in the 5600 block of East Pima Street, in midtown, Dugan said.
Officers found the man walking down the street with a knife in his hand. Police tried to talk to the man, who pulled out what appeared to be a handgun, Dugan said.
Moments later shots were fired and the man was struck multiple times. The two officers who fired their weapons were Mark Molina, a 19-year veteran of the department, and Gary Rosebeck, an eight-year veteran, Dugan said.
No officers were injured during the incident.
An administrative investigation is being conducted, which is standard protocol in all shootings involving officers.
Carmen Duarte
