PHOENIX (AP) - The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says a posse member wounded in a New Year’s Eve shooting has been brought out of medically induced coma.
Sheriff’s spokesman Joaquin Enriquez tells KNXV-TV (https://bit.ly/1oQ27my ) that 63-year-old Phillip Grigg came out of the coma over the past weekend. Enriquez says the posse volunteer remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit and has a stomach infection. Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that Grigg was in a coma last week.
Grigg was shot while trying to help a Phoenix police officer confront a suspect in the east Phoenix robbery of two strip club employees.
The police officer also was shot but has left the hospital.
Enriquez says Grigg has been able to communicate with his family.
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Information from: KNXV-TV, https://www.abc15.com
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