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This undated photo provided by the Scottsdale, Ariz., Police Dept. shows Scottsdale Police Officer James Peters. Peters was one of several Scottsdale police officers called to a home in the Phoenix suburb on Tuesday night, Feb. 14, after neighbors reported a man holding a baby was threatening them with a handgun, Chief Alan Rodbell said. Peters shot and killed Loxas, who was holding his grandson at the time.  For Officer Peters it is his seventh officer involved shooting since 2002, six of them being fatal. Police department spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said investigators were looking into Peters' decision to shoot Loxas on Tuesday and why officers felt threatened or believed he was a threat to the child.   (AP Photo/Scottsdale Police Department)

Police officer in Ariz. shooting has shot 6 others

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Is James Peters one trigger-happy cop? Or just an aggressive police officer who happens to find himself in more than the usual number of explosive situations?

Those are the questions police in Scottsdale are fielding after Peters was involved in his sixth deadly shooting over the past decade in the sprawling Phoenix suburb of almost 220,000 people.

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