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Scottsdale police shoot, kill armed individual near Hayden and McDowell roads

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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Scottsdale police officers shot and killed an armed individual near Hayden and McDowell roads Sunday evening.

The police department received a call about a domestic disturbance regarding a person with a gun around 6:45 p.m.

Officers arrived at the scene just a few minutes later and located a man with a gun. He refused commands to drop the weapon and began firing at officers, according to Scottsdale PD officials.

Two officers then fired their weapons at the man around 6:50 p.m. He was struck and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics at 7:10 p.m.

He has been identified by police as 26-year-old Isaiah A. Curtis.

No officers were injured.

Further details haven't been released.