Arizona Republic:

The incident started as a traffic stop of a driver who blew through a stop sign near 36th Street and Sweetwater Avenue in Phoenix. Glidewell said that, as he approached the car, he got “a gut feeling that something was a little different.” Then he saw the gun and felt the impact of a bullet hitting his vest. He stayed on his feet and returned fire. “It happened really fast,” Glidewell said. Hours after the shooting, police took into custody Jose Abel Cabrera at a home in north Phoenix, an arrest aided by the discovery of two bullet holes Glidewell made in the rear window of a pickup truck the suspect was driving, court records indicate. Cabrera, a Mexican citizen who is in the country illegally, faces charges of attempted first-degree murder of a law-enforcement officer and misconduct involving weapons. Glidewell was taken to the hospital as a precaution and was released quickly. Then, the officer, who looks even younger than his age, started making phone calls. “I called all of my family and told them I was OK,” Glidewell said. “They were happy but scared.”