On the evening of August 19, 2021, 20-year-old Tamar D. Police were dispatched about 7 p.m. after a 911 hang-up and reports of a shooting. Tamar was taken to a nearby hospital by emergency personnel and pronounced deceased.

A responding officer encountered Tamar’s father, 44-year-old Wayland Deron McAfee, leaving the room in a wheelchair. The officer says Wayland was not compliant, struggled, and was found armed with a handgun; the officer disarmed him. During handcuffing, Wayland allegedly tried to grab the officer’s duty weapon, a taser was deployed without effect, and additional officers then took him into custody. Wayland was booked into the Maricopa County Intake and Release facility and faces charges including second-degree murder, aggravated assault on an officer, and possession of a weapon by a prohibited person; court records show a prior aggravated assault conviction.

What details about that night or the people involved might help explain how this fatal confrontation began?