Suspect, witnesses detail confrontation in Tempe firefighter's shooting death

  • Source: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix
  • Published: 05/18/2018 06:18 AM

VIDEO: When Hezron Parks woke up on Feb. 4, he saw on local television news that the man he had fatally shot during a road-rage incident 10 hours earlier in downtown Scottsdale was a Tempe firefighter. Parks thought, according to a transcript of a police interview, he should go to police and explain why he felt justified in shooting Kyle Brayer, a 34-year-old Tempe fire captain and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who had been with six other people in the bar district. But Parks, 21, had reservations about talking to police. He thought investigators wouldn't believe his assertion that a firefighter was the aggressor, the police interview shows.



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