Phoenix Police Shooting Whitaker. Family wants two officers fired and the one who shot Ryan Whitaker to have criminal charges against him. Whitakers family believes the shooting was unjustified and they are calling for the officer to be charged with murder.
A Phoenix police officer who killed 40-year-old Ryan Whitaker at his apartment door last year was reinstated Thursday after the department attempted to fire him. Ryan Whitaker was shot in the back by Officer Jeff Cooke in May at an Ahwatukee Foothills. Ryan Whitaker died after May 21 Ahwatukee shooting.
Family wants two officers fired and the one who shot Ryan Whitaker to have criminal charges against him.
The shooting led to protests who demanded justice for Whitaker. Phoenix police had portrayed Whitakers shooting as an emergency domestic violence call. PHOENIX - On July 16 the family of a 40-year-old man who died following an. Ryan Whitaker was a 40-year-old American man who lived in Ahwatukee Arizona an urban village of Phoenix Arizona who was shot twice and killed by Phoenix Police Department Officer Jeff Cooke at approximately 1052 pm.
