Officer’s name released in shooting
Loreal Tsingine
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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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