Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
GUNS
Suspect in Mesa shooting released from hospital, sent to jail
Posted
INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA
The 43-year-old suspect injured in an officer-involved shooting in Mesa earlier this month is in jail after being released from a hospital.
Victor Manuel Pacheco faces assault and weapons charges stemming from an incident that began when Mesa police responded to a domestic violence call on Sept. 19 near Country Club Drive and Broadway Road.
According to court records, the suspect’s fiancé said he shot a gun near her face and threatened to kill her before he left in a black Mercedes sedan. The woman called police.
At the home, police saw the suspect’s car “within view of the scene,” court records stated, and patrol vehicles followed it before making a traffic stop south of the Alma School and Main Street intersection.
“The man leaned out of his vehicle holding what appeared to be a handgun," police officials said in a release issued shortly after the incident. "This is when the officer-involved shooting occurred."
One officer fired, and the man was hit by gunfire.
Police said "less lethal measures" then were used to get the man out of his vehicle.
The suspect’s handgun was tossed in the roadway and was identified as a .45 Sig Sauer, police said.
Police reported they found three more handguns inside the car. Another weapon was found in the suspect’s and victim’s home, according to court records.
Pacheco has a 2010 Pima County armed robbery conviction and was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison, which prohibits him from possessing firearms as his rights have not been restored, court records show.