KPNX Photographer Rick Scruggs, passed away suddenly this weekend.

The Tegna station said that Scruggs died from natural causes. 

Scruggs had been with the station since January of last year.

The station writes that, “He covered so many crimes scenes, in fact, that when the police responded to his apartment Saturday, many of the officers recognized him. "Hey," they said, "that's that news photographer."“