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He called 911 two days early to tell them this was coming. Axeel Melendez was 23, playing video games at his home outside Tucson, when strangers hacked him on April 8 and started threatening him over his personal information. He called 911 and told a dispatcher they were planning to phone in a fake emergency at his address. The dispatcher told him that wasn’t how it worked and nothing was going to happen. A Pima County deputy came out to the house that same day, took his statement and told him there was nothing to worry about. At 5:40 a.m. on April 10, someone claiming to be Axeel called and reported that his father had fired at his sister. Deputies rolled up believing a girl had been struck inside. Body camera video shows a deputy breaking a back window into Axeel’s bedroom. Axeel and his mother Carmen were inside and did not know who was breaking in. His attorneys say he grabbed the family’s legally registered handgun and hid, trying to protect her. Deputies fired eight shots, acc...

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