PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A suspected car thief accused of firing shots at random before being shot by police near downtown Phoenix last month is now out of the hospital.

Investigators say Manuel V. Vasquez, 40, was discharged from medical care on Thursday and booked into the Maricopa County jail.

On Oct. 10, officers were investigating a stolen vehicle call near 4th Avenue and Osborn Road when they heard gunfire. Phoenix police say that officers went to a nearby apartment complex and found Vasquez standing next to a Honda Civic, with a rifle lying on the roof.

Bodycam video shows officers telling Vasquez to show his hands before he grabbed the rifle and drove off.

“He has a rifle,” an officer is heard saying in the first bodycam clip. “He’s taking off. Black Honda Civic.”

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