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Monday, January 5, 2015

Officers pay for man’s meal tab then arrest him in fatal stabbing



PHOENIX, Arizona – A pair of Phoenix police officers were trying to do a good deed and get help for a young man with mental health issues, but what they ended up with was a New Year’s Eve arrest in connection with a stabbing death.

The officers had gone to a Phoenix IHOP restaurant after employees called and said a man had ordered and eaten a meal but could not pay for it, Sgt. Tommy Thompson said.

The officers determined that 23-year-old Mykel Cantrel Cooper had some sort of mental health issues, paid his tab and took him to a facility for treatment, Thompson said.

Cooper then told mental health staff at the facility he had “done something bad” to his roommate. More
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