MESA, AZ — Mesa police officers were involved in a deadly shooting along Dobson Road near Southern Avenue.
The incident occurred Wednesday just after 4 a.m. when a 7-Eleven store employee called the police to report someone who was in a vehicle in front of the store who may have been sick, asleep, or injured.
Police say they responded to the scene and learned the vehicle had been stolen from the Chandler area on Tuesday.
Officers used multiple methods over the course of about 20 minutes to try to wake up the person or get them to respond and comply with officers' commands.
At that point, the person started to move and rolled down the window, but still did not acknowledge the officers.
Police say the vehicle began to move and rammed an officer's vehicle.
Two officers opened fire, hitting and killing the driver. The person has been identified as 25-year-old Watts Williams.
No officers were injured.
This incident was one of two deadly police shootings in a matter of hours in the Valley. Another happened hours earlier in Phoenix, leading to the death of a driver in a vehicle that matched a suspect description from an armed robbery.
