Thursday, March 28, 2024

Officer’s name released in shooting

Officer’s name released in shooting

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Melanie Yazzie (Photo courtesy of family GoFundMe.com site.)

Melanie Yazzie (Photo courtesy of family GoFundMe.com site.)

Winslow Police Officer Austin Shipley, a three-year veteran of the Winslow Police Department, is the officer being investigated in connection with the shooting death of a Navajo woman on Easter Sunday, the Arizona Department  of Public Safety revealed today.

The Winslow Police Department had been withholding his name until today.

Shipley shot Loreal Tsingine five times after she allegedly threatened him with a pair of scissors during a skirmish outside a convenience store about 4 p.m. March 27. He had been trying to arrest her in connection with a shoplifting incident at the store.

The investigation is being done by “a team of competent and experienced state detectives who conduct these types of investigations for other agencies regularly throughout the state of Arizona,” according to ADPS spokesman Raul Garcia.

Garcia said investigators “have spent much of the last week in Winslow interviewing leads and conducting follow up.”


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About The Author

Cindy Yurth

Cindy Yurth was the Tséyi' Bureau reporter, covering the Central Agency of the Navajo Nation, until her retirement on May 31, 2021. Her other beats included agriculture and Arizona state politics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in technical journalism from Colorado State University with a cognate in geology. She has been in the news business since 1980 and with the Navajo Times since 2005, and is the author of “Exploring the Navajo Nation Chapter by Chapter.”

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