AVONDALE, AZ (KGO) -- An Arizona state trooper is dead after being shot during a struggle with a suspect in Avondale, authorities said.
Officials say several officers were fighting with the suspect for several minutes while trying to take him into custody on I-10 outside of Phoenix.
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Authorities say one of the troopers lost their duty weapon in the struggle.
The suspect fired two rounds. One trooper was wounded. The other, Trooper Tyler Edenoffer was killed.
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Trooper Edenoffer was an officer in training and had just graduated from the state trooper academy in May.