Police Department Officer Zane Coolidge

Officer Zane Tristan Coolidge, 29, of Phoenix AZ, died on September 6, 2024, from gunshot wounds sustained three days earlier. He and another officer were responding to a reported vehicle break-in near 16th Street and McDowell Road when the suspect fled and fired at them, striking both officers. The other officer survived.
Officer Coolidge graduated from Thunderbird High School in 2013. He attended Arizona State University, graduating summa cum laude in 2019 with a degree in criminal justice. He then joined the Phoenix Police Department, serving for five years and becoming a field training officer in the Mountain View Precinct, where he guided newly graduated officers.

His wife, Kristin, first met him while working as a nurse at the county jail and was impressed by his professionalism, kindness and compassion toward those in his care. At his memorial, she called him “my soulmate, my rock, my everything.”

There is legislation currently in progress to rename the Post Office across from Thunderbird High School, the Officer Zane Coolidge Post Office.

Officer Coolidge was survived by his wife and daughter, Emma who was five months old when he died.