Death by Cop 2021-2025
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Nathan Aaron Peru
Gender : Male
Age : 31
Race : White
Date : 10/22/2025
Location : Pima County Detention Facility
City : Tucson
County : Pima
State : Arizona
Agency : Pima County Sheriff’s Department
Officer(s) :Not Disclosed
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during arrest
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
On 10/22/2025, 31-year-old Nathan Aaron Peru was fatally shot by a corrections officer while in custody at the Pima County Detention Facility in Tucson. Authorities stated that Peru attacked an officer while being treated at a hospital, prompting the shooting. He had been detained as a suspect in his daughter’s suspicious death and on child sex-crime charges. The incident remains under investigation by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
