KINGMAN – The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who was killed and provided additional details as it conducts an independent investigation of an Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) incident. Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said the man who died following a multiple hour Wednesday morning standoff in Kingman is Jason Peters, 45, Kingman.
Mortensen said Kingman police were first summoned at 12:36 a.m. to a report of a man chopping bushes on his neighbor’s property in the 2000 block of Fairgrounds Boulevard. The subject had left by the time police arrived.
Police responded to the same area again at 2:12 a.m. when it was reported that the same man exited his residence and fired a rifle round through a window of the same neighbor’s home. Mortensen said Peters fired additional rounds at officers after Kingman police returned.
Mortensen said police used a PA system to communicate to Peters that they wanted him to safely exit the home. Kingman Police Chief Rusty Cooper previously said that Peter’s responses were aggressive, confrontational and uncooperative.
“Peters continued to fire rounds out of the windows of his residence, striking officers’ vehicles and neighboring homes until approximately 5:28.a.m.,” Mortensen said. “At that time, Peters fired a round out of the back window of the home towards a KPD officer, who then returned fire.”
Peters was found dead after Lake Havasu City Police Department SWAT personnel entered his home.
“At that time, it was determined that the rifle used by Peters during the incident was a high-powered air rifle,” Mortensen said. Mortensen said it was initially unclear if Peters died of officer fire or a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A cause of death determination is pending at the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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