Phoenix Police Officer Ignacio Gonzales ’Nacho’ Conchos, 39, was fatally shot while on duty. Conchos had served seven years with the Phoenix Police Department and was assigned to the South Mountain crime-resistance unit. The shooting occurred after a bank robbery suspect was seen entering the Valley Squire Cocktail Lounge at 44 East Southern in Phoenix.

About twenty minutes after the robbery, Officer Conchos and his partner, Officer John Davis, both in plainclothes, entered the bar to search for the suspect. The suspect opened fire, discharging seven shots at the officers before they could draw their weapons. Officer Conchos was killed at the scene; Officer Davis was wounded and later died of his injuries about a month afterward. The suspect, a 25-year-old man, was taken into custody and later convicted on two counts of first-degree murder and given a life sentence. An elementary school in Phoenix was later named in Conchos’s honor. He was survived by his wife and four children.