The Pima County Sheriff's Department is now on the hunt for three men in connection with a Wednesday morning shooting that left a Tucson police recruit dead and his corrections officer fiancée hospitalized with a gunshot wound.Authorities say they've obtained an arrest warrant for Alex James Barnett, 33, one of the three suspects.The other two men have not yet been publicly identified as of Friday morning.Surveillance video released Thursday night shows at least two other men wearing black in separate clips — one at a gas station at 5405 West Valencia Road around 5:20 a.m.
on Wednesday and later in a parking lot near South Palo Verde Road and East 33rd Street at around 10:50 a.m.SUSPECTS AT LARGE AFTER TUCSON POLICE RECRUIT KILLED, PIMA COUNTY CORRECTIONS OFFICER WOUNDED IN SHOOTINGA split image shows a still frame taken from surveillance video of an unidentified male suspect on the left and wanted 33-year-old Alex James Barnett on the right.The images were released in connection with a manhunt in Tucson, Arizona, following the shooting death of a local police recruit, 23, that also left his fiancée hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
She is a Pima County corrections officer.(Pima County Sheriff's Department)The suspect vehicle, a gray Acura MDX SUV, was abandoned there and recovered by police Thursday, authorities said.One of the unidentified men appears to have tattoos on his arms and legs.
He had short, dark hair and a short beard.The person seen dropping off the Acura was pictured only in grainy video and appeared to be wearing a shirt without sleeves.Still images taken from surveillance video at a Shell gas station at 5405 West Valencia Road in Pima County, Arizona, around 5:20 a.m.
on Wednesday, Aug.19.
This is shortly before deputies responded to a 911 call nearby and found a Tucson police recruit dead and his fiancée, a Pima County corrections officer, suffering from a gunshot wound.She was hospitalized in stable condition.
This unidentified man is...