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Tucson police identified a man killed in an officer-involved shooting after the man fired randomly at people at a convenience store.

Christopher D. Burdon, 39, of the 2200 block of North Madelyn Avenue, died at the scene of the Monday shooting, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.

It was the second officer-involved shooting in two days.

Monday's shooting occurred about 12:45 p.m. when a caller to 911 said a man was driving a dune buggy in a dirt lot near North Oracle and West Grant roads and was firing in the direction of a Circle K store.

"Numerous people were in the line of fire," Pacheco said.

One officer arrived and positioned his patrol car east of the dirt lot on West Sahuaro and Burdon fired at him, Pacheco said. Meanwhile another officer, Luis Campos, who is part of the SWAT team, approached Burdon moving south on North 11th Avenue from Grant Road.

When Burdon refused to obey commands to drop his firearm, Campos "observed the threat to citizens and the officer and fired at the suspect, striking and killing him," according to a TPD news release. No bystanders were injured.

Campos, an eight-year-veteran, used a rifle to kill Burdon.

Police don't know what prompted Burdon to start firing his gun in the dirt lot, but Sgt. Mark Robinson, a Tucson Police Department spokesman, said his family said he was insulin-dependent.

Investigators will not know if that was a factor until an autopsy's toxicology reports are complete, and that can take six to eight weeks, Robinson said. "If those are inconclusive, we may never know," Robinson said.

Bill Dean, an employee at Big Sky Motorcycles, said he works across the street from where Burdon had been shooting his firearm.

Dean said Burdon had pulled his dune buggy into the dirt lot about 10:15 a.m. and about two hours later he began driving around the lot pointing his gun at people and shooting.

So far this year there have been five officer-involved shootings in Tucson.