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1 month ago | azcentral.com | Mike Cruz

A 32-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a man to death during a fight in the parking lot of a Surprise church. Police responded to a call about a man down around 6 a.m. May 27 at a church parking lot near 113th Avenue and Bell Road, according to Surprise Police Department officials. The man was found dead, and police said he had multiple stab wounds. He was identified as 28-year-old Tyrone Lee Wetzler.

1 month ago | azcentral.com | Mike Cruz

A Buckeye man is in police custody and facing charges after police say he was accused of masturbating in a high school parking lot and having sex with a minor. Officers arrested 26-year-old Michael Armijo on May 22 during a traffic stop near his home, according to Buckeye Police Department. Two female students at Canyon View High School reported to a school resource officer on May 16 that they saw a man masturbating in a car parked next to them in a campus parking lot after school May 15.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mike Cruz

A series of shootings at local bars in May have rattled people across metro Phoenix. The shootings have been in three different cities and different settings. One was at a longtime student haunt nestled in a Tempe neighborhood. Another was at a Glendale restaurant open for about a year near the historic downtown. The third was in a Peoria strip mall off a major roadway. They led to the deaths of four people and injured several more.

1 month ago | azcentral.com | Mike Cruz

Four people were killed and several others injured in three separate shootings at bars across metro Phoenix in May. The shootings took place in Tempe, Glendale and Peoria. Police made an arrest in connection with the Tempe shooting. A series of shootings at local bars in May have rattled people across metro Phoenix. The shootings have been in three different cities and different settings. One was at a longtime student haunt nestled in a Tempe neighborhood.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mike Cruz

The Justice Department under the Trump administration is closing its investigation of the city of Phoenix and its police department over alleged constitutional violations, it announced May 21. The agency's three-year civil rights investigation into policing in Phoenix concluded in June with the release of a 126-page report that said officers routinely engaged in unlawful brutality and discrimination and violated the rights of protesters and unhoused people.