Bodycam Footage Shows Moment Arizona Trooper is Shot By Suspect

(Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) Phoenix, Arizona On Monday, June 19, 2023, shortly after 11:30 a. m. Trooper Sean Harkins stopped the driver near 21st Avenue and Thomas Road. The bodycam video of Trooper Sean Harkins shows him walking up to a darkcolored Kia fourdoor sedan. Thats when the suspect, identified as 29yearold Luis Mateo Jacobo Borja, leans out his window, says, Gotta go bro, and shoots Harkins in the leg. A startled Hawkins stumbles to the ground before retreating to the side of his own vehicle to report that he had been shot and that Borja had fled south on 21st Avenue. He grabs what appears to be a tourniquet from a recess on the driver s side door when another law enforcement officer arrives to render aid. The officer repeatedly tells Hawkins to stay with me as he helps him lie down with his back to the ground and reports on the radio that Hawkins had been struck in the left leg and requested im