Police were investigating a suspicious vehicle in a parking lot. There was one officer looking into it when the suspect approached. There was a fight and and the officer requested help. Shortly after that, the shooting took place. Is being treated for injuries and is expected to be okay. So tell me ex had injuries to his face, did the suspect have a knife . I dont have that information. There is a physical suspect physical altercation between the two. He is suspected to have received minor injuries to the face, so there was a struggle. Just before that, there was an officer here looking into a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of the park. There was a physical struggle, the suspect during which the officer received minor injuries to the face. The officer was able to get on the radio for help. The second officer then encountered the suspect as well. There was a shooting, the officer shot the suspect. The suspect moved a brief distance away and then fell to the floor and thats where the suspect was pronounced deceased. Reporter the man was shot before he started running. Correct. The shooting suspect took a short distance where he felt of thgr katie, we will get back to you in just a second. Weve got to get over to alice iris for the developing weather situation. Yes the rain woke up some of us here. Hopefully it didnt wake you up. We are sitting at 84 degrees currently but lets jump into we can see what this looks like. Lets zoom in and see whats happening right here in the phoenix metro area. You can see overnight we had a good amount of lightning strikes and some pockets of heavier rainfall. Mallory and i were chatting earlier and she said it was down pouring where she was and then all of a sudden nothing. Things can break up very quickly. This is near Fountain Hills along mason and scottsdale. Just off the 101 you can see we will be tracking this throughout the morning but you did see some of lightning strikes as well. Justin pazera is where there right now and that lightning is mesmerizing but also very dangerous. Reporter yes, really allison just on my way into work i saw several lightning strikes. They were actually on i10. Just a few blocks from here we saw them on the street. Hopefully you wont have to deal with anything like this check this out, several palm trees went up in flames in glendale and you can see just how close they are to the homes. Thankfully the homes were not damaged but it was a close call for those folks and then just look at the aftermath. Charred palm trees. It was a scary morning for folks in this neighborhood. The lightning actually it hit the tree. And woke all of us up and then we came inside and some of fire. Reporter werent the only ones seeing a lot of lightning. We also got word from issues in west phoenix so the area getting hit hard this morning. Justin pazera abc15. Two crime alerts coming out of mesa and officers really need your help tracking these cases. The first is a search for a dodge ram and the driver 13 the suspect pulled into a parking lot near greenfield road, hitched up a trailer and then took off. Two yamaha dirt bikes were on the trailer at the time. And mesa police said this man went on quite the beer run. His love for bud light may be his undoing. He stole this from a University Drive gas station. When confronted punch and took off when the driver in a white chevy cavalier. Wheres jesse wilson . We are finding out more information about the 10year olds mother. Ya asked the Maricopa County attorney about his mother. There are reports she was once a foster mother in california and had taking children away from her. Had children taken Maricopa County says theres not a good way to track issues from other states. We dont have a thorough National System for sharing information. Whether there is anything that came up when she initially had contact with dcis locally that wouldve raised the suspicions resulting in checking other states i dont know. The county attorney pointed out that no charges have been filed and at last check they said the mother is cooperating. The Maricopa CountyAttorneys Office is one of the best there is according to an International Group that credits law force agencies. They earned a Gold Standard assessment. It is something montgomery says they are very proud of. Abc15 live desk. These images are Something Else coming out of new jersey. I was showing this on Facebook Live a few minutes ago in what my goodness. Obviously there are injuries in this one and they said this collision occurred at high speed. One person has died and nine others were injured. One of the buses there is almost broken in half. Scary stuff. To the Death Investigation in chandler as police look for a couple a killer after an 84yearold man was found stop stabbed to death near dobson and warner. If you know anything about what went on there, please police. Accused of misusing public funds and having inaccurate public documents. The board of regents will hold a special Board Meeting today to talk about these and other issues. They will also be getting legal advice and that portion of the meeting starts at 3 00 but it is not open to the public. They have University Schools in tucson and phoenix. The irs wants to make sure they dont become the victim of apparently telling persons and students telling students they hope owe back taxes. They will demand payment over the phone or threatened to arrest them. We had people putting themselves between the flames and people just to get them out of harms way. They are making more progress on the blue cut fire burning in this area with the San Bernardino in the San Bernardino area. More than 1500 crews are battling the 36,000 acre fire. Containment has now risen to 22 . A Damage Assessment team has been ordered to look at the destruction but the fire has just been too dangerous for crews to get in. The north and southbound lanes are now open in the area. The fires in california to the historic devastating floods in louisiana. Helping our state is on the way. By days end there will be volunteers taking action in both of those states issues assisting with shelter, food and the emotional support they need so much. They will get a visit from the republican president ial candidate today as his running mate mike pence will be in baton rouge. I hope everybody in louisiana knows that our country is praying for them and standing with them to help them in these difficult hours. There were 13 deaths so far. 80,000 people have applied for federal disaster assistance. The number of damaged homes, a staggering 40,000. They are calling this the worst disaster since super storm sandy. Us got a few raindrops this morning. You definitely did need the windshield wipers at some point. But its not very widespread and it is dying down. It looks like its going to be mostly dry. Lets take a look at where we are at right now. 83 degrees and keeping chances low throughout the day. A little bit later on though, 103 so it will get ready to stay. Heres a look it will get pr outside. We saw some of the heavier rain coming therefrom the west. You see it there with the lighter shades of green and the yellows and tiny dots of red. Thats definitely breaking up now and we are just seeing some light rainfall near the Fountain Hills area but most of the valley is clear right now so we will keep our eyes open. We are keeping rain chances for the next couple of days and then as we start the work week so we cant let our guard down. Yet. Its 97 degrees by lunchtime. You may want to eat indoors. Coming up we will tell you a little bit more about when the chances are that we could see more spotty showers. Even though we are seeing more wet and damp roads in the valley, no spots on the freeway now from the east valley. I17 southbound starting at loop 101 until you hit i10 but i do want to give you a look at one of these spots. This is loop 202 rainier gilbert road. You can see the shine out on the roadway and traffic is light but take it easy when you do see those slick spots. Liar liar speed goes on fire. With prism on the go from centurylink, you can get your favorite shows right on your devices pretty much everywhere you go. Um, paul, that was great. I like how you can walk around and watch your shows. And your delivery really evokes the frozen north. Meets un giorno nella vita. Or early film noir. Like whispering city. But the french version. Im just gonna take a drumstick there. Hmm, its a bit derivative. Mom and your suggestion . The pottery maker . Son no. The summer of my despondency. If youre just waking up with us, the live drive is out right now in the west valley keeping an eye on some of the conditions in your community. Allison hernandez has your most accurate forecast in just a moment but first new developments in the same the swing case in swing gate 2016 Brazilian Police say swimmer ryan lochte and his teammates made up the story that they were robbed at gunpoint. This is the Surveillance Video where three minutes of it are missing. They were drunk and vandalized a bathroom and then lied when questioned by the guards. Three but breaking overnight, james feigen is still in brazil but hes agreed to donate nearly 11,000 as part of a deal with the brazilian judge there in order to not be prosecuted. They are certainly creating a bad rap for the us u. S. Team but take a look at the medal count. Is that not impressive . Team usa dominating the leaderboard. Is that a thing . Maybe it is now. Its week two. Abc15s craigs we is in the beach craig phuy is at the beach. Reporter no better way to start than at the beach but tonight its the cardinals taking on the chargers in preseason game number two. Our coverage starts at 4 00 this 6 00 and when we talked to the players theyve been excited to be out here all week. Of course tonights game is the ultimate experience for them in game two. The kind of go in and treat this as a game even practicing against her own defense but this time we have a chance to actually practice for these guys and we know a little bit about what they do so that will be nice going into it. Its refreshing to have a new look at have to go through all the protection adjustments with different guys and compete against different styles of defense. Its been great and i just cant wait. For now we are at the beach a woman in Santa Cruz County is suffering from a number of symptoms after contracting zika virus, bringing the number of travel related cases to 24 in our state. We know she was bitten somewhere else and then returned home to arizona. It has not spread to mosquitoes in our state but they are stepping up surveillance and monitoring the insects as a precaution. Zika virus has at least one family taking changing for a cruise. Mom got pregnant and the doctor didnt want her to brisk getting the virus. But so far no no luck in getting the full refund. They were all set on going. She said going on the cruise isnt worth the risk. I dont want to put my unborn child in any undue danger. So carnival did not return an afterhours email. The family was set to cruise next month. Y march. Tumor cases were just reported in florida bringing the total to 35. Today we expect new travel recommendations for those who are pregnant and researchers are looking for volunteers to work on testing a vaccine. We have to talk about your most accurate forecast. Hopefully this doesnt bode badly for the weekend but take a look at what we now with abc15 desert doppler. Youve seen the activity already this morning, maybe it woke up some of you but weve already seen it lasting about two hours and now starting to break up. In scottsdale and Fountain Hills its moving along quickly. You also see the spotty nature of this thing so assuming that its moved out completely there are still some areas getting very spotty showers. In about the last 10 minutes or so we started to see if you are in this area, you will see some raindrops but definitely not everybody is getting in on that this morning. Take a look, we top out at 103 today. It will be a muggy day. If youre going to be outside, then noticed that the uv index will be in the very high category. The air quality is not terrible, in the moderate category. So try to limit your Time Outdoors if you are extremely sensitive. No other weather alerts but we are keeping a 20 chance of showers throughout the day and this is why look with the here with me at futurecast. We start to see showers in this model popping up across the state, so that is why we are specifically in the afternoon to early evening hours as we make it rain chances from that daytime heating and the monsoon that just creates a lot of instability in the air. As we take this into tomorrow morning the saturday morning is looking to stay at least drier. We will see clouds throughout the state as well but we arent looking for any widespread showers or anything like that. Rain chances are sticking around through the weekend we finally drop this down by the start of the next work week. I know you dont want to think about the work week just yet but know that you need to keep the umbrella handy. Just in case we do get popup showers. Heres a quick look across the state. 80s in payson, 90 in sedona and 75 in flagstaff. In the east valley highs are topping out just below average for this time of year which is 104 degrees. We keep partly cloudy skies and in the west valley again, very we keep this and its not even the coolest day. Desert drive times are brought to you by centurylink prism. The airways the roadways are green. No slowdowns just yet as you head out but we do have a crash that shut down a portion of grand avenue. Westbound lanes are shut down between bethany home in maryland. To get around it your smart route will have to be they are actually at the crash, trying to get around this because i know they have set up a Large Police Presence there. You will see that closure on the westbound side. You can see some of the restrictions may be in the distance there with some of the flashing lights. But the big news is we cannot take the westbound direction of grand avenue so hop up and take all right, eight minutes to the top of the 5 00 hour. The search for the serial shooter that reaches across state lines is volunteers from california are spotted on valley streets. We have got the Perfect Place to find pokestops. A whole list of things to do this weekend, coming up. Twitter is cracking down on terrorists suspending nearly a quarter of 1 million accounts. This follows a string of world. Twitter has increased daily suspensions by more than 80 . Uber has announced the rollout of a fleet of self driving cars. They are still working on making the cars fully driverless , so they will come with human back up drivers to handle any unnamed unexpected situations. And mercedes unveiled its latest concept car. Its more than 18 feet long with an electric engine packed with 738 hp, but only a range it can be charged through a wireless electromagnetic field. It is still just a concept, but it looks cool. Those are your tech bytes. Congratulations, its friday and the weekend is here. There are several things to. Arizona Science Center inviting adults for the backto school with coffee in chemistry that. Have you wondered what reptiles do it nine . Have dinner while alligators, snakes and lizards have their dinner tomorrow evening. And looking glendale for pokimon. They are invited to downtown glendale tomorrow night. If youre in the mood for mexican, head to mexican had to southern arizona. Buy tickets ahead of time. And get the ultimate fa experience for your arizona cardinals. They are back and we are giving away tickets to the cards and broncos game on september 1. All youve got to do is download abc15 mobile app, look for the contest entry to win and go to abc15. Com win for rules. Good luck. Heading out the door, heres what you need to know. We have isolated showers and temperatures in the 80s. We keep the chances for storms later on so dont lose that theres a surge of excitement at gcu as the lopes gear up for greatness. We do not accept defeat. We will not disappoint. We will not quit. Come watch us defend our house against louisville, San Diego State and rival new mexico state. Catch all the familyfriendly entertainment. Games will sell out. [crowd cheering] get your basketball season tickets today at lopestickets. Com one officer injured in a Deadly Police shooting. We have brandnew information coming up. And alert going out to Valley Police departments after a deadly shooting between two i want to get right to the breaking news only on abc15. Com. In phoenix a Police Officer was rest should was rushed to the hospital after getting into a fight with a suspect who is now dead. All of this happened right near 20th street and thomas, east of the 51. Katie conner has been on the scene for us this morning. I know you were putting some information on facebook. What do you have now . Reporter chris, we learned the officer spotted a morning on the opposite side of this crime tape. He approached the car and the suspect came out of nowhere and attacked him. This all happened around 2 30 a. M. The officer managed to radio for help and fortunately there was an officer nearby. When officers showed up, he shot the suspect and then turned around who then turned around to run away. The officer here initially received minor injuries to his face and is being treated at