Man arrested in gunfire exchange with TPD officer back behind bars after initially released without bond

TUCSON (KVOA) - The antheral accused of exchanging gunfire with a Tucson Police Department serviceman connected Aug. 20 is backmost down bars aft a justice re-set the individual's enslaved to $75,000 Friday.

Back connected Aug. 24, a justice granted 26-year-old Zachary Oscar Lee a pretrial merchandise with nary enslaved successful transportation to charges that were the effect of an speech of gunfire with an undercover TPD serviceman successful a parking batch astatine 4800 E. 29th St.

Officials accidental Lee was charged with aggravated battle with a deadly limb and discharging a firearm wrong the metropolis limits aft helium was medically cleared for non-life-threatening injuries sustained successful transportation to the incident. 

On Sept. 1, the Digging Deeper Team reported that the authoritative initially asked that Lee beryllium held connected a $50,000 enslaved owed to the seriousness of the crime. However, owed to Lee having nary transgression history, the justice decided to merchandise the 26-year-old to his grandma with nary bond.

After TPD Chief Chris Magnus voiced his vexation with the pretrial merchandise decision, Pima County Attorney's Office filed a caller question for a antithetic justice to reconsider Lee's merchandise conditions.

According to officials, a justice reconsidered the determination and acceptable a $75,000 enslaved connected Lee. He has since been taken into custody and booked into Pima County Jail.

"Due to the relentless enactment of our Attorney Mike Storie and a matched effort by Pima County Attorney's Office Prosecutor Dan South, Zachary Lee is present successful custody connected a $75,000 CASH bond. A fig of our officers and respective assemblage members were highly acrophobic with Mr. Lee’s release," Tucson Police Officers Association said successful a connection released Friday afternoon. "We would similar to our Tucson Police Department detectives for presenting a beardown lawsuit arsenic well!"