Spike strips stopped this guy and that didnt work and thats when the driver went right at a dps trooper who barely had enough time to get out of the way. He does have an injury but he will be okay and after that dps says the driver crashed deliberately into several patrol cars and got out of his car and troopers in that area involved with that collision with the suspect observed a firearm and 1 trooper felt in danger for his life and the life of the troopers around him and fired more than 1 shot at the suspect. Reporter dps says the suspect did die right here at the scene but the investigation will continue right now the 101 is shut down from the 51 to scottsdale road. Please avoid the area on your morning commute and as soon as we get word on when it will reopen we will let everyone a large and active scene. I want to bring in our traffic expert mallory more on ways to get around the situation. Mallory . A dot just tweeted that loop 101 eastbound is closed as well state route state ro
Crashed into several cars and he got out with the gun and thats when he was shot and killed. Back out here live the investigation will take several hours throughout the morning and right now the 101 is shut down. For more on how to get around this lets send it over to mallory. I want to get to the details of this closure eastbound close at state route 51 and westbound closed at scottsdale road. Eier smart route. Your best option is to take bell road to the 51 or vice a versa and that can wrap you around the closure. We also have another Traffic Alert from our adot camera. This is 202 to the mountain. It shut down your 24th and you can see how they are making traffic exit. Its backed up and i think i10 is you best option and take state route 43 to the 10 and Allison Rodriguez is out there live with the details. Hear me im just south of mcdowell and 19th street and what were seeing here and standing on a box because it so hard to get a good angle you see that mangled car, that was part o