MESA, AZ — Mesa police say a 21-year-old man is hospitalized in critical condition after a barricade situation turned into a shooting involving officers early Monday morning.
The 21-year-old has been identified as Abdul Basit Ishan.
The incident began late Sunday night near Rio Salado Parkway and Country Club Drive. Officers responded to a call of a burglary in progress, which escalated into a barricade situation after a man ran out of the house, jumped a wall and attempted to hide in a laundry room at a nearby apartment.
ABC15 spoke to a neighbors in the are who did not want to be identified, "I heard like a bang outside, and I look over to the window and there was a helicopter going up around the house," said one neighbor.
"At first it sounded like a hole bunch of thunder was on top of us," said another neighbor who ultimately took cover in the back of her home with her kids.
According to police, the man jumped another wall and hid inside a nearby storage shed, described by police as a laundry room, with a handgun.
After several hours, shots were repeatedly fired at officers, which is when one officer returned fire using less lethal rounds as the man was exiting the laundry room.
Court documents state Ishan was exiting the laundry room with his hands up when he "quickly put his hands down by his waistline."
Ishan was taken into custody and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
According to court documents, Ishan told investigators he knew the person who lived at the residence the initial burglary call was made to. Ishan also told investigators he took "a bunch" of blue M30 pills and a gun from the apartment.
Ishan has since been released from the hospital and faces charges including 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of first degree burglary, one count of possession of narcotic drugs, and five counts of endangerment with substantial risk of death.
No other injuries were reported.
This is the second shooting involving officers in the city of Mesa within a few hours. Police were also involved in a shooting near Dobson and Baseline roads Sunday evening. In that case, police say the man who was shot was a fugitive wanted out of Colorado and New Mexico that officials had been tracking.
