Police ID suspect in metro Phoenix shooting that injured 3

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Police in a Phoenix suburb on Thursday identified a 20-year-old man as the suspect in a shooting at a recently reopened shopping and entertainment district that injured three people and sent panicked people running for cover.

Armando Hernandez, Jr. was detained after he was confronted by officers Wednesday night in the suburb of Glendale, police said on Twitter. No information was disclosed about a possible motive.

One of the victims was in critical condition at a hospital and two others suffered non life-threatening injuries, police said in an earlier statement.

The shooting happened at about 7:25 p.m. in Glendale's Westgate Entertainment District, where people had headed to stores and restaurants that recently reopened after they were closed for more than a month because of the coronavirus pandemic.

State Sen. Martin Quezada, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that he witnessed a person “with an AR-15 shoot up Westgate.”

A Glendale Police Department spokeswoman, Officer Tiffany Ngalula, said she could not confirm whether an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle was used in the shooting.

“I saw 2 victims with my own eyes. Not sure how many others,” Quezada wrote on Twitter. “I saw the shooter. Being told not to say anything else about details ’til I speak to police. I’m ok. Lots of shaken up people.”

Video posted on social media showed people running from the area and scenes of people embracing each other after the reunified.

Eliana Rivera, a sales associate at a pottery painting store, posted on Twitter that she and co-worker hear police running by and helicopters fly overhead as they huddled in the back of the business, the Arizona Republic reported.

“It’s just unreal,” Rivera said. “You see it on the news. It happens and you never...