A four-hour standoff between Cochise County Sheriff’s deputies and a suspect, Eric Doug Bryan, alleged to have shot a woman in the face early Monday morning ended peacefully at Garden Canyon Mobile Home Park in Sierra Vista. Bryan has been identified as a suspect in the shooting of Marybeth Ray, 30, of Sierra Vista, who was transported to a Tucson hospital after authorities responded to an address in Fry Townsite at about 2 a.m. Monday.
Bryan, age 46, was taken into custody by members of the Special Weapons And Tactics team just before 4 p.m. after he was spotted by authorities on the city’s West End and ran into a vacant mobile home.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 200 block of North 3rd Street after receiving a report of a shooting. Upon Deputies arrival, Ms. Ray was located suffering from a gunshot wound to the head/face area.
Bryan reportedly fired one shot inside of Ms. Ray’s residence before leaving and firing more shots into the trailer which struck Ms. Ray.
Authorities later responded to the Motel 6 on Fry Boulevard near Lenzner where the suspect was allegedly at and the weapon belived to be used in the shooting was located along with other items of evidence of criminal activity.
Authorities were not able to find Bryan until early in the afternoon after he was identified by a Sierra Vista Police Department officer walking in the area of the mobile home park on Carmichael Avenue, south of Fry Boulevard.
Police spotted him enter a vacant trailer and barricade himself inside. That prompted a large response from the Sheriff Department and Sierra Vista police, firefighters and the Fry Fire Department. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Assist Team was also summoned to the scene and blocked entrances to the mobile home park while SWAT team members negotiated with Bryan.
Ms. Ray is listed in intensive care.