A Week Ago Sunday, Downtown Tucson Had a Mass Shooting
Beege Welborn 12:00 PM | July 27, 2026
A week ago in the popular downtown Tucson area around the 100-block of Congress Street, there was a late-night/early-morning crowd at the pizza parlors and other businesses.
I imagine folks had been out all evening doing those things you do - I can still remember - and there's sometimes no better way to cap off a busy Saturday night than pizza and munchies at two in the morning at one of the eateries scattered among the bars in a popular city district.
The sidewalks had lots of foot traffic, and the pizza joint itself was pretty packed when apparently some words were exchanged between two groups who knew each other and were not on the best of terms.
And then one malignant man decided to do this as he walked away.
It absolutely seemed like the hand of God - there was a Tucson police officer on the scene when 21-year-old David Leroy French (that's his name, yes) opened fire into the crowd. And it took that magnificent cop all of ten seconds to knock the gunman to the ground with his own return fire, neutralizing him, as even more Tucson police officers arrived out of nowhere.
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