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Name Withheld

Age : 31

Gender : Male

Race : Unknown

Date : 08/24/2021

Location : Safeway parking lot, 401 East Highway 260

City : Payson

County : Gila

State : Arizona

Agency : Payson Police Department

Officer(s) :Jirhod Brennan; Kyle Bathke; Carson Frahm

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during stop related to alleged abduction report

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/24/2021, shortly after midnight, Payson Police Department officers responded to the Safeway parking lot at 401 East Highway 260 after receiving a report that a man had physically forced a woman into a black SUV at gunpoint. The man was described as a 31-year-old New Mexico resident. Police later learned that the man and woman were a couple traveling to New Mexico when they stopped at the Safeway.
Officers Jirhod Brennan, Kyle Bathke and Carson Frahm responded to the call and located the SUV in the parking lot. The officers directed the woman to get out of the vehicle. She complied and officers began escorting her away from the SUV toward a police vehicle.
While police were moving the woman away, the man quickly got out of the SUV. Payson Police Chief Ronald Tischer alleged that the man turned toward the officers and made a movement that officers interpreted as an attempt to draw a weapon from his waistband. Police ordered him to stop and show his hands. According to the department, he did not comply.
Brennan, Bathke and Frahm opened fire, striking the man. Officers provided medical aid at the scene before he was flown to a hospital in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area, where he died from the police gunshot wounds.
The initial Payson Police statement did not state that the man actually produced or pointed a firearm during the shooting. Instead, Chief Tischer said officers fired after the man made a movement “as if” he were drawing a weapon from his waistband. The contemporaneous reports available publicly do not clarify whether police subsequently recovered a firearm from his person.
All three shooting officers were placed on administrative leave. At the time, Payson Police reported that one of the officers had more than four and a half years of law-enforcement experience, another had approximately two years, and the third had approximately 13 months.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety took responsibility for investigating the fatal shooting rather than leaving the investigation solely with the Payson Police Department.
A deeper search identifies the three shooting officers as Jirhod Brennan, Kyle Bathke and Carson Frahm. Fatal Encounters' subsequent case record specifically names all three as the officers who responded to the Safeway and shot the man. This information was absent from the earliest news reports, which identified the officers only by their years of experience.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/payson-police-fatally-shoot-man-in-parking-lot-encounter
https://www.abc15.com/news/region-northern-az/man-dies-after-being-shot-by-police-officers-in-payson
https://www.12news.com/article/news/crime/payson-police-shoots-kills-man-who-allegedly-held-woman-gunpoint/75-285117b8-f337-4835-ad75-3ffd484b9e10
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2021/08/24/new-mexico-man-suspected-kidnapping-killed-payson-police/5572442001/
https://navajotimes.com/reznews/blotter/police-report-nm-man-shot-killed-by-payson-police/
https://kvia.com/ap-new-mexico/2021/08/24/arizona-police-fatally-shoot-man-in-parking-lot-encounter/
https://fatalencounters.org/view/person/victim/6477d076/