Camouflage-attired David Nicholas Delich, 25, ambushed on-duty officers, wounding two Pima County sheriff’s deputies before shooting a 43-year-old Tucson police officer in the head during a Sunday shooting spree.
Delich surrendered without incident to deputies on Mount Lemmon.
Tucson officer Erik Hite, a married father of two, including a one-year-old daughter and son serving in the military, is not expected to live.
Read the full account of these senseless and horrific acts of violence in the Tucson Citizen.
Monday, June 2, 2008 Update:
It is with great sadness that we report Tucson police officer Erik Hite was removed from life support and passed away earlier today. May God bless him and his family.
June 2, 2008 at 10:46 am
I’d love to serve on this jury!
June 2, 2008 at 11:08 am
Wonder what Delich has accomplished thus far in his young life other than being a cowardly ambusher of those who serve and protect?
June 2, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Chief Miranda needs to re-assign the officers who apprehended this guy to a night shift Walmart security position. As a taxpayer, I want these cops taken off the job immediately. He should have been taken the same way he took Mr Hite’s life.
June 2, 2008 at 7:24 pm
What a tremendous sadness and unnecessary acts of brutality. Our hearts and prayers are with Officer Hite’s family.