An Arizona police officer, the son of a Yellowstone County Sheriff’s deputy killed in 2006 while on duty, was himself shot and killed Saturday while responding to an emergency on an Arizona Indian reservation.
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Joshua Briese, an officer with the Gila River Police Department, was killed while responding to a disturbance on the Gila River Indian Community on June 1, 2024.
Joshua Raymond Briese had been with the Gila River Police Department for less than a year, and was still on field training when he was fatally wounded while trying to control a crowd on the reservation, according to a statement from the GRPD. One other person was killed in Saturday’s shooting and three others wounded, including a second GRPD officer.