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Harrowing video shows Arizona cops in deadly shootout with alleged kidnapper

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Dramatic new body cam video has been released of a police shootout in Arizona that ended with a gunman being killed and another suspect arrested during the rescue of a kidnapping victim.

The deadly incident unfolded Nov. 13 in the parking lot of Moreno’s Mexican Grill in Scottsdale, where two men — Rene Calderon, 45, and  Wyatt Edge, 43 — were inside an SUV, Arizona’s Family reported.

When Edge walked inside the eatery, undercover officers in three unmarked vehicles rushed into the lot and boxed the SUN while a fourth police car drover over a sidewalk to block Calderon.

The chilling footage shows him firing his fully automatic AK-47 assault rifle at the cops before they have time to jump out of their vehicles.

One detective takes heavy gunfire through the windshield while additional rounds strike the second and third detectives’ SUVs.

Chilling body cam video captured a deadly shootout between Arizona cops and a kidnapping suspect who was killed in the gun battle. Scottsdale Police Department / Facebook

The first detective jumps out through the passenger side and runs around the vehicles to avoid the withering crossfire.

“Watch out! Watch out! Get back!” a detective is heard shouting in the body cam video.

“We’re in the crossfire! We’re in the crossfire!” another shouts.

Video from another detective shows him getting shot at after getting out of his SUV and using his rifle to return fire before switching to his handgun and continuing to shoot.

Several detectives exchanged gunfire with Rene Calderon, 45. Scottsdale Police Department / Facebook
Calderon died of his injuries at the scene. Scottsdale Police Department / Facebook

“Get the victim! On the passenger’s side!” a second detective yells as his partner runs around an SUV and reloads his rifle.

“How’s our victim? Where’s our victim?” a detective shouts during the pandemonium, during which Calderon shoots from the back seat.

“Where’s the victim!? Watch our 360!” a detective shouts.

 “Somebody said they have him,” another replies.

Police called for a trauma kit after the shooting. Scottsdale Police Department / Facebook

One detective is seen on the hood of a police SUV, pointing his gun into the gunman’s shattered rear window.

He sees Calderon still pointing his weapon toward the officers.

“If he f—g moves, he’s getting it again. Don’t move!” a detective shouts. “He’s got a (ballistic) vest on. Don’t move!”

One officer suffered minor injuries in the shootout. Scottsdale Police Department / Facebook
The windshields of several police SUVs were riddled with bullet holes during the shootout. Scottsdale Police Department / Facebook

The first detective then fires his gun Calderon a few more times.

After the shootout, one detective says he’s wounded.

“Hey, my ear’s bleeding. I don’t know if I took a round or not,” he says.

The detective was taken to a hospital and was released the same day, officials said.

The fourth detective, who boxed Calderon from the front, spotted the kid victim fleeing from the SUV during the gun battle and hiding behind a parked vehicle.

Wyatt Edge scottsdale police department

“I got victim! I got the victim! I got the victim!” he shouts as the victim lies on the ground.

“Thank you guys, thank you so much! Oh my God, thank you man,” the relieved victim says after the harrowing battle.

Despite the barrage, Calderon was still alive.

“The man is still breathing. Let’s get some medics and … get me a trauma kit real quick,” a detective says, but Calderon, who was wearing body armor, soon died at the scene.

Edge, a former Marine who was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in the early 2000s, was arrested inside the Mexican restaurant.

His attorney claimed he came from Texas to help out a friend days before getting married and didn’t know a kidnapping was involved.

Police have said the kidnapping victim was not a random person the two men took away, adding that they had been involved in an armed robbery weeks earlier, ABC 15 reported.

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