Original Article East Valley news briefs Mar. 30, 2005 12:00 AM Man with warrant is shot by Mesa officers MESA - Two Mesa officers shot and injured an unarmed man suspected of threatening police after trying to break into a check-cashing store early Tuesday, police said. Orin R. Antone, 30, a Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community resident, was taken to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn, where he was in stable condition. Antone was wanted on an outstanding parole violation from a California robbery and on a warrant in Mesa for failure to appear on a false reporting charge, police said. The incident began about 12:25 a.m. Tuesday. Police responded to a call about a man trying to break into the Southwest Check Cashing store near Dobson Road and Main Street, Mesa police Sgt. Chuck Trapani said. Trapani said the officers told the man to stop and put his hands up but that he was "totally uncooperative" and yelled profanities. The officers fired and they said the man came toward them with his hands under his shirt. Trapani said the man did not have a gun. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0329MesaShooting29-ON.html Police shoot man outside Mesa business Senta Scarborough The Arizona Republic Mar. 29, 2005 01:45 PM Two Mesa officers shot and injured a 30-year-old man suspected of threatening police after trying to break into a cash-checking store early Tuesday, police said. Orin R. Antone, a Salt River Pima Indian Community resident, was taken to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn where he was in stable condition Tuesday afternoon. Antone was also wanted on an outstanding parole violation warrant from a previous robbery in California and on a Mesa city warrant for failure to appear on a false reporting charge, police said. The incident began just after midnight Tuesday when a caller reported a man trying to break into the Southwest Check Cashing store near Dobson Road and Main Street, Mesa police Sgt. Chuck Trapani said. Police arrived about 12:25 a.m. and found a man who fit the caller's description in a dark parking lot. Trapani said police told the man to stop and put his hands up but that he was "totally uncooperative" and yelled profanities at officers. "Then he puts his hands under his shirt holding on to some type of object that the officers believed might be a weapon," Trapani said. After numerous verbal commands, an officer fired a non-lethal beanbag gun, hitting the suspect, but it was "ineffective," police said. "He started to walk toward the officers again keeping his hands concealed and under his shirt holding on to that object," Trapani said. Police say the suspect approached an officer who was providing cover for the beanbag officer. "The officer felt threatened and shot his duty weapon. The man looked like he was falling to the ground and again advanced toward the officer and officers shot again and were able to take him into custody," Trapani said. Police found an object hidden by Orin but it was not a gun. Trapani said additional details are being withheld until investigators complete interviews with several witnesses and officers. Mesa resident Kevin Weston, 42, who said he refused to talk to police, said he was going to a nearby restaurant when he witnessed the shooting. Weston agreed that Orin didn't obey officers' commands, but said he heard gunshots followed by a "boom" that he believed was the beanbag shotgun, and then more shots. He estimated hearing more than five shots. Officers said the beanbag gun was shot before any live-round weapons were fired. "He wasn't advancing. He was trying to get away," Weston said. "That poor guy didn't have a chance." The incident was Mesa's first officer-involved shooting this year. Trapani said the officers will be placed on routine, three-day paid administrative leave, and police will conduct a criminal investigation that will be reviewed by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. After it is complete, an internal board of inquiry probe will be conducted to determine if the officers acted within department policy and procedures and if there are any training issues.