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 An officer runs to assist others in the search for a suspect in an incident in which two Tucson Police officers were reportedly injured, one possibly stabbed and one possibly shot on Sunday, May 11, 2008. Jeffry Scott/Arizona Daily Star
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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.11.2008
One police officer was shot and another stabbed after responding to a domestic violence call Sunday afternoon in Midtown.
One officer was stabbed in his right armpit, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman. The other officer, on the job for 10 months, was shot in the upper leg.
Both officers are in the hospital with serious but non life threatening injuries, Pacheco said.
The incident started around 3 p.m. in the 1500 block of East Prince Road, near North Cherry Avenue, he said.
He gave the following account of the incident, which was the department’s first shooting of an officer this year.
Officer Edward Boyen, 34 and a female officer went to an apartment for a domestic violence call.
When the officers arrived they found Travis O’Neal Hylton barricaded in a bedroom with his 4-month-old infant.
Boyen forced entry into the room and Hylton stabbed Boyen in the right arm pit and then took Boyen’s gun.
The female officer got the infant and shot Hylton in the left shoulder. Pacheco would not say how many times she fired at Hylton.
Hylton fled the apartment and began shooting at responding officers in the apartment complex parking lot. Officer David Friedman, 23 was shot in the upper leg.
Hylton ran from the parking lot and police began a search and found Hylton hiding near the apartment complex behind a wall.
Pacheco could not say how many times Hytlon fired at officers but, “it was a lot.”
One man who lives in the area was outside when he saw officers arriving on the scene.
“When I saw the cop cars I figured something was going down,” said Rob Carlisle. “The scene reminded me of when Officer Hardesty was killed a few years ago near here. The officers did a really good job of securing the area and quickly blocking access.”
Officer Patrick Kent Hardesty was shot to death June 2003 while investigating a car wreck near East Fort Lowell Road and North First Avenue, Arizona Daily Star archives show.
Pacheco would not say who called in the domestic violence call Sunday. Friedman has been with the police department since last July, while Boyen was hired in February 2000.
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