#Phoenix man killed in police-involved shooting on Fourth of July

A Phoenix man was shot to death in a car by police — who claim he was armed — in a caught-on-camera incident on the Fourth of July, according to a report.

The Phoenix Police Department said they received a call Saturday afternoon about a man suspected in an earlier aggravated assault returning to a house with a knife, the Arizona Republic reported.

The caller directed officers to the home where the suspect was supposedly located, the outlet reported.

Police said they found a man sitting in a car in the driveway as they approached the home.

Officers ordered him to get out of the vehicle, but he refused and instead flashed a handgun, authorities said.

The man then allegedly began to lift the weapon, prompting one cop to break the car’s passenger window to distract him while two other officers fired into the vehicle, the outlet reported.

The man who died in the shooting was not identified by police, but Phoenix City Councilman Carlos Garcia said his name was James Garcia, according to the report.

In a Facebook video on Sunday, the victim’s sister, Jacqueline Garcia, disputed cops’ claim that her brother was armed at the time.

Footage shows officers surrounding the car when one of them yells through the driver’s side window, telling the man not to move or that he will shoot.

Moments later, the cop can be seen firing into the vehicle as witnesses yell at the officers.

“Phoenix PD shot my brother who was unarmed sleeping in the car,” Jacqueline Garcia claimed in the post.

She said that officers “thought he was someone else” and that “after they killed [her] brother they found the suspect they were looking for.”

But police denied her allegations, saying, “the suspect was not asleep in the vehicle, he armed himself which is what lead to the officer-involved shooting,” the Arizona Republic reported.

Protesters gathered Sunday night to demand the police release bodycam footage of the deadly encounter.

“He may have deserved to go to jail, but he didn’t deserve to die,” one of the protesters, Fe’la Iniko, told the crowd, according to the report.