Shootout at Circle K: Police bodycam footage shows fatal encounter in Maricopa
A Maricopa Police Department officer was seriously wounded in an exchange of gunfire with a suspect. The man police were pursuing was killed.
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Sounds like a swell fella
Keith Prock, 37, is the person shot and killed by a Maricopa police officer yesterday at the Circle K near Alterra. The Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office told InMaricopa today it had taken custody of his body.
The officer, whom InMaricopa is choosing not to name at this time, remains in stable condition.
Pinal County says it will soon release more information in its ongoing investigation. Prock’s family declined comment.
We are learning more about Prock’s life from his digital footprint and court records. Investigators said he had an “extensive violent criminal history.” That criminal record shows mostly drug arrests.
Prock on his Facebook page said he lived in Hidden Valley. Public records show he previously lived in Sorrento in 2021.
On Facebook, he is a family man, holding his children. He is visiting local parks, smiling with family members. He is making jokes, playing pool and laughing with family and friends. Videos show Prock on construction sites dancing with coworkers, laughing.
Then there is the side known to law enforcement. Most recently, he had a warrant issued for a 2024 drug arrest. The last decade of Prock’s life is one interwoven with the courts, often related to drugs.
In 2012, when he was 25, Prock was arrested for robbery, assault, driving drunk and fleeing from police. According to court records, he robbed a business and then fired a gun into that business. When he pleaded guilty to that assault charge, it locked Prock up for six-and-a-half years.
In 2018, when he was 31, Prock was released on probation. Almost immediately, he started a YouTube channel.
By 2019, his probation was loosened for good behavior. He had at least 18 urinalysis or breathalyzer tests and passed them “on many occasions.” He completed 93 hours of community service and seemed to be doing well.
In the summer of 2020, that changed. We can see glimpses of it on Prock’s social media and that YouTube page. On Nov. 17, 2020, Prock posted several clips of his life in Maricopa.
In one instance caught on a doorbell camera and uploaded by Prock, he fights with an ex-girlfriend on his front porch in Sorrento. After being shoved by Prock, that unnamed woman steps toward him and says, “Why don’t we call probation?”
It takes him aback and Prock walks back inside.
In another clip, Prock is walking through a neighborhood, sweating and energetic. He wonders to the camera if a nearby neighbor is going to call the cops on him. He continues talking to the camera in a racist stream of consciousness.
In the YouTube short titled “Wild Hillbilly,” Prock seems to pick a fight with an unseen resident.
“Come on out here, motherf*cker, I’m out here in the grass,” he says. “I’ve got these hands. They’re lethal. They’ll f*ck your ass up. You saw me already. I saw you walk the f*ck inside.”
“You ain’t a n*gga, you’re a n*gg*r,” shouts Prock.
Prock was arrested again in July 2021 on fentanyl possession charges. He was sentenced to a year in the Arizona Department of Corrections. He served his time in Florence. That arrest cut short a custody battle he was fighting in a Maricopa County family court, according to documents filed in that court.
By April 2022, he was back on probation and posting images of himself with a family.
In April last year, as if putting the criminal life behind him, Prock sold an Arizona Department of Corrections jumpsuit on an online marketplace. According to the marketplace, the orange jumpsuit sold for $100.
Prock posted family photos with a young infant, laying on a bed, smiling.
“Man, I love this little girl,” he posted.
In less than a month, on May 2, Prock was wanted again on drug charges. By May 17, he had a warrant for his arrest.
It is unclear if that warrant is related to the confrontation with the police yesterday at Circle K.
Prock’s public defender, Kate Milewski, has not returned requests for comment.
Keith Prock, 37, is man killed by Maricopa police in Circle K shootout
(First InMaricopa) Keith Prock, 37, is the person shot and killed by a Maricopa police officer yesterday at the Circle K near Alterra. The Pinal County Medical Examiner’s Office told […]
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