10 April 27th–MAy 3rd, 2023 phoenixnewtimes.com phoenix new Times | music | cafe | film | culTuRe | NighT+Day | feaTuRe | NeWs | OPiNiON | feeDBacK | cONTeNTs | appeared confused as he walked away from officers and took refuge under a parking awning. Officers ordered that he drop the gun, and at one point, he is heard in the bodycam footage saying, “No.” Cornwall then pointed the gun up directly over his head and fired a round at the structure above him. He did not point the gun at officers. After Cornwell fired the gun, the briefing footage shows that officers shot and killed him. Man Dies After Officers Handcuff Him Next week, the Phoenix police department is expected to release bodycam footage and additional information about the death of 29-year-old Zacharie Irambona. An investi- gation by the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner is still ongoing, and few details about the man’s death are available. Police said that they responded to a call on the morning of April 10 after an indi- vidual called to report a theft. When an officer encountered Irambona, he was “lying down in the front yard of a home,” police said. Officers handcuffed him and called the fire department. Police said the handcuffs were then removed and Irambona was taken to a hospital, where he later died. So far in 2023, Phoenix police officers have been involved in at least nine deaths, including seven fatal shootings. The people police killed are all men and range in age from 29 to 76. January 3: Officers shot and killed Cosme Medina Núñez, a 46-year-old man who was holding a pair of scissors. January 7: Officers shot and killed Kenneth Hearne, 37, who was armed with a handgun. Hearne shot a Scottsdale police officer the day prior. February 11: Bryan Funk, a 40-year-old man who had just been released from prison, died after multiple officers pinned him to the ground, knelt on his back, and restrained his legs during an arrest. The Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner is still investigating Funk’s cause of death. February 22: Derin Holmes, 41, took his own life as officers approached him. While officers shot at Holmes, who was holding a gun, they said he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. An investigation by the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner found the manner of death to be suicide. February 22: Officers shot and killed Jason Resendez, 47, who pulled out a gun as officers approached him. February 25: Officers shot and killed Matthew Anthony Sansotta, 36, after he reached for a gun in his car during a DUI investigation. March 5: Officers shot and killed James Saucedo, 42. Officers said Saucedo shot a woman and then pulled a gun on officers when they arrived. March 6: Officers shot and killed Anthony Castro, 40. Castro was stabbing a woman when he was shot. March 14: Police said Daniel Parra, 37, fled when officers tried to stop him as he walked in an HOV lane on Interstate 17. Officers chased Parra to a QuikTrip near Cactus Road, where he brandished a knife and barricaded himself in a storage room and set it afire, police said. When SWAT officers entered the room, they said Parra was dead. April 1: Officers shot and killed Cornwell, 76, after police said he fired a handgun into the air while they were investigating reports of attempted burglary at an apartment complex. April 19: Irambona, 29, died after officers handcuffed him as he lay in the front yard of a home. | NEWS | Phoenix police officers shot 76-year-old Dwight Cornwell after pelting him with several rounds of pepper balls. Phoenix Police Department Kill from p 8
