Man pointed pistol at officer, refused to drop it, was shot dead, police say
A child molestation suspect who died at 12:35 a.m. Monday from police gunfire never served time in an Arizona prison, the state Department of Corrections Web site shows.
Nor does an Arizona sex offender Web site list Stanley L. Barr II, 48, as someone who would be required to register here even if he had been convicted of a sex crime in another state.
Police have identified the two officers who shot the armed man as Steven Boggie and Loren Layton, each of whom has been with the Tucson Police Department for four years, police spokesman Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said.
Barr died at University Medical Center shortly after he pulled a gun on Boggie and Layton and they shot him late Sunday night, Tucson police said.
Events leading to the shooting began about 2:45 p.m. Sunday, Pacheco said. He provided this account:
A mother reported the molestation of her teen, and Barr became a suspect in the case. The youth’s identity and gender were not disclosed.
Officers and detectives began an investigation that led them to get a warrant shortly before 8 p.m. to search Barr’s home in the 6300 block of East Calle Castor, near East 22nd Street and South Wilmot Road.
Detectives staked out the home until uniformed officers could help serve the search warrant.
At the front door of the home, Boggie and Layton saw Barr pull a pistol from his pocket as he approached them.
The two officers repeatedly told him to drop it.
Instead, Barr chambered a cartridge in the semi-automatic pistol and pointed it at the officers, both of whom fired at him.
Boggie and Layton have been put on paid leave, as is standard procedure in police-involved shootings, Pacheco said.
Homicide detectives and internal affairs investigators are investigating the shooting.