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.
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.
