Police killings
2013-2020

Arthur Joseph Gonzales

Male, Hispanic

Date of the incident: 2/15/2018

Mesa, Maricopa, AZ
E Broadway Rd & S Gilbert Rd

Officers responded to reports of a person with a gun. Officers found Arthur Joseph Gonzales waving a handgun and rifle as he made "incoherent statements" at a home. After a SWAT team arrived to help secure the area, a shooting took place in front of the house. He said the man ran inside, then was seen in back of the house with a gun, and a second shooting then took place. Police took the man into custody with a gunshot wound to the arm. Gonzales died days later.