The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and the Prescott Valley Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying the person who shot into a deputy’s home nearly striking a sleeping child.
According to the law enforcement agencies, at approximately 2:25 a.m., December 3, 2020, an unidentified subject fired multiple rounds into a deputy’s home in the 8300 block of E Loos Drive, in Prescott Valley. One of the rounds passed directly over the head of his sleeping 4-year-old child, nearly striking the child.
No one was injured.
The Prescott Valley Police Department is seeking information from anyone with information on suspicious activity in the vicinity the Mountain Valley skate park, between the hours of midnight and 3:00 a.m., to contact Detective Field at 1-928-772-5108 or mfield@pvaz.net.
Additionally, Yavapai Silent Witness is offering a $6000 reward for a direct tip with information leading to the identification and arrest of the shooter. Tips can be submitted online at www.yavapaisw.com or by phone at 1800-932-3232.
“This was not just an attack on law enforcement and one of our deputies, but a cowardly act against his young family,” said Sheriff Scott Mascher. “Several local law enforcement agencies are working this incident and using whatever means available to find, arrest, and prosecute this assailant. Silent Witness has offered a minimum $6000 reward for tips and I want the coward to know that we will find you and bring you to justice. You can run, but we will get you.”