TOLLESON, AZ (AZFamily) — A West Valley man says he’s lucky to be alive after being shot more than a dozen times by Tolleson police officers, and now he’s planning to sue the city.

Ricky Barron’s attorney, Robert Pastor, said his client is a single father to twin 14-year-old girls and spent two months in the hospital, undergoing multiple surgeries, including amputations.

He’s now in a wheelchair and unable to take care of himself or his daughters on his own.

“He is struggling just to get back up on his own feet, literally,” said Pastor.

On March 28, 32 shots rang out in a matter of seconds, and all of the gunfire came from two Tolleson police officers.

Nearly one minute after the first shot was fired, police body camera video shows an officer pull the trigger again.

Barron was unarm

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