Arizona mourns slain Chandler officer
Gilbert Officer Rico Aranda is steadily improving from head injuries sustained April 29 in a violent confrontation with a car thief that left a Chandler police officer dead, Gilbert Police said. Gilbert Police on May 3 said Aranda "is responding well to treatment and we expect him to be transferred within a couple days out of ICU and into neurological treatment and recovery." Gilbert Police last week identified the suspect who triggered the deadly climax to a chase that began in Eloy and ended at the San Tan Motorplex in Gilbert as Jonathan Atland, 25, of Tolleson. He was being treated ...