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Active shooter in Tempe, Arizona ‒ police Officer-involved shooting, suspect barricaded in Tempe senior center ‒ police
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Law enforcement in Tempe, Arizona are working an active-shooter situation. There was an officer-involved shooting and the suspect is now barricaded in a building, the Tempe Police Department tweeted. There was an officer-involved shooting in Tempe, Arizona wit suspect barricaded in in the Westchester Senior Center.
The police officer is okay, the department said.The police officer is okay, the department said.
The suspect is barricaded in the Westchester Senior Center. No residents have been hurt. Roads in the area have been shut down.  No residents have been hurt. Roads in the area have been shut down.
Police appeared to have been responding to an armed robbery at a nearby Walgreens, according to KSAZ. The suspect was shot there.
 A SWAT team has arrived on the scene.
Firefighters are also at the location to assist with elderly residents who have been evacuated from the senior center and into the heat, KSAZ reported. The current temperature is 102 degrees F, and feels like 106 degrees.Police have entered the storage area of the senior center where the suspect is holed up. They have brought a stretcher or backboard into the building. Officers are not wearing tactical gear.
Law enforcement have made contact with the suspect, and are preparing to transport him to the hospital, Tempe Police tweeted.