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<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>Arizona dad is shot dead by cops after battering his wife and teen son to death before asking a neighbor if he could borrow their gun to shoot himself </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>Paul Sarver, 53, was shot and killed in his driveway in Phoenix on October 25 after officers responded to a domestic violence call</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>Police were conducting a wellness check after a concerned neighbor alerted told a 911 operator about the disturbing conversation with Sarver who left his daughter behind for safe keeping at their home</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>Sarver reportedly told the neighbor he wanted a gun so he could kill himself, before telling them to look after his daughter as he returned home alone</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>Police then received a second call, this time from Sarver, who was heard telling an operator. &#8216;Um, we just need police bad. What&#8217;s going on is really bad&#8217;</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>According to police reports a officers approached Sarver&#8217;s home, he emerged from behind a parked vehicle in the driveway</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>He allegedly told cops he had a gun and proceeded o point an object toward s them, prompting cops to open fire &#8211; killing him</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style="color:#64575a"><strong>Inside the home, officers found Sarver&#8217;s wife Shannon Hursh, 46, and his 13-year-old son Caden Sarver, critically injured. Both later died in hospital</strong><br></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Paul-Sarver-right-with-hs-wife-Shannon-Hursh-their-son-Caden-Sarver-and-daughter-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358956"/><figcaption><strong>Inside the Paul Sarver family home in Phoenix, Ariz. cops found his wife Shannon Hursh, [second right] and their 13-year-old son Caden [right], critically injured. They had both suffered blunt force trauma and were later pronounced dead</strong> <strong>in hospital</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>A middle-aged Arizona man was shot dead by police in Phoenix late October after he killed his wife and teen son then went knocking on his neighbor&#8217;s door to ask if he could borrow a gun to shoot himself. ;<br>Paul Sarver, 53, was killed by police in Phoenix on October 25 after he battered his wife and teen son, before asking his neighbor if he could borrow a gun to kill himself.  ;<br>The deadly incident unfolded in Phoenix after officers responded to reports of a domestic violence situation just after 10:05pm at a home near Interstate 17 and Jomax.</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Paul-Sarver-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Paul-Sarver-1.jpg" width="123" height="148"/><figcaption><strong>Paul Sarver, was shot by cops in Phoenix, after he&#8217;d killed his wife and son</strong></figcaption></figure></div>



<p>Police made the wellness check after a report by a concerned neighbor who told a 911 operator that the Sarver had just come over to his home with his daughter and asked to borrow a gun. ;<br>The neighbor, who remains named, said Sarver also made repeated threats that he was going to kill himself. ;<br>Having failed to extract a firearm, Sarver left his daughter with the neighbors after telling keep the 11-year-old safe before returning to his own home alone.<br>Police then received a strange call, this time from Sarver who told the operator. &#8216;Um, we just need police bad.&#8217;<br>While the operator repeatedly asked &#8216;What&#8217;s bad?&#8217; and if anyone was hurt, Sarver simply responded, &#8216;what&#8217;s going on is really bad.&#8217;<br>Two officers from the Phoenix Police Department were dispatched to the scene but as they were approaching the home, Sarver emerged from behind a parked vehicle in the driveway, police bodycam footage show.<br>He informed the officers that he had a gun. ;<br>&#8216;Stay down get that weapon down,&#8217; an officer is heard commanding him. ;<br>Sarver instead extended the object out in front of him and pointed it at the officers, who then opened fire on him. ;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Police-investigate-murders-at-the-Sarver-family-home-in-Phoenix-Arizona-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358953"/><figcaption><strong>Cops fatally shot Paul Sarver&#8217;s home, after he emerged from behind a parked vehicle in the driveway, telling the cops he had a gun and extending an object towards officers </strong></figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Paul-Sarver-right-with-hs-wife-Shannon-Hursh-their-son-Caden-Sarver-and-daughter-1.jpg" alt="This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Paul-Sarver-right-with-hs-wife-Shannon-Hursh-their-son-Caden-Sarver-and-daughter-1.jpg"/><figcaption><strong>The sole survivor from the Sarver family tragedy is their 11-year-old daughter [face blurred]. Authorities are unsure if she witnessed the killings before her dad handed over to neighbors for safe keeping</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>The officers rendered aid until EMTs arrived but the 53-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. ; ;<br>Next to the man that had just been shot police found a black hard-shell eyeglasses case, which had apparently being used to simulate a weapon.<br>Officers then went inside the home and found Sarver&#8217;s wife Shannon Hursh, 46, and his 13-year-old son ;Caden Sarver, critically injured. ;<br>Both, badly bleeding from blunt force trauma, were rushed to hospital in &#8216;extremely critical condition&#8217;.</p>



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As investigations continue, Phoenix police released body-camera video of the shooting of Paul Sarvar



<p>Hursh died in hospital hours after arriving. Caden remained in a critical condition for several days until he too succumbed to his injuries on five days later. ; ;<br>The couple&#8217;s 11-year-old daughter was unharmed in the incident. It&#8217;s unclear if she witnessed her dad murder her mother and brother before he took her over to the neighbor&#8217;s home for safe keeping.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Eye-glass-case-used-as-weapon-in-Sarvar-family-murders-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358959"/><figcaption><strong>This black hard-shell eyeglasses case which Sarver used to simulate a weapon was lying next to him, police said in heir report</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>As an investigation into the deadly incident continues, neighbors of the couple have revealed their shock over what happened. ;<br>&#8216;We found out it was one of our neighbors going door to door looking for a gun,&#8217; Laurie Abels told<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/suspect-killed-in-phoenix-police-shooting-woman-teenage-boy-killed"> ;Fox 10</a>.<br>&#8216;He did not come here, but he did go to some other neighbors saying he wanted to kill himself, that he hurt his wife and son.&#8217;<br>&#8216;It just goes to show you don’t know what’s going on in other people’s houses,&#8217; Abels continued. <br>&#8216;He must’ve had a lot of problems, I wish he would’ve reached out in a different way.&#8217;<br>Blake Peters, meanwhile said: &#8216;You would see them walk their kids to the bus stop, she would socialize with other moms, the dad was more of the stricter parents.&#8217;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Police-investigate-murders-at-the-Sarver-family-home-in-Phoenix-Arizona-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358950"/><figcaption><strong>Responding officers met the case extreme domestic violence at the home after concerned neighbors called for a wellness check on the residents</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Close friends of Shannon Hursh said Sarver struggled with mental health issues and that she had planned to get him help.<br>&#8216;She lived for her kids, and she lived to give them the happiest life that she could,&#8217; Lindsay Kennedy said of Hursh. ;<br>As an investigation into the deadly incident continues, neighbors of the couple have revealed their shock over what happened.<br>Close friends of Hursh said Sarver struggled with mental health issues and that she had planned to get him help.<br>A ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/1vcapw9f6o?utm_source=widget&;utm_medium=referral&;utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet">GoFundMe page</a> ;set up by grieving family members described Shannon Hursh as an &#8216;amazing mother and friend who was valued and loved beyond measure.&#8217;</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Police-investigate-murders-at-the-Sarver-family-home-in-Phoenix-Arizona-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358951"/><figcaption><strong>Police investigate domestic violence at the Sarver family home in Phoenix Ariz. on Oct 25 </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>On Nov. 6, Phoenix police released ;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.phoenix.gov/newsroom/police/1613" target="_blank">body-camera video</a> ;of the shooting. Police say an internal investigation into the shooting is underway.</p>

Suicidal Arizona man is shot dead by police after battering his wife and 13-year-old son to death before asking a neighbor if he could borrow their gun to shoot himself
