{"id":334245,"date":"2025-10-26T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334245\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T16:57:11","slug":"man-dies-following-shooting-outside-west-phoenix-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/334245\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies following shooting outside west Phoenix hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A man died at the hospital after a shooting in west Phoenix on Saturday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Phoenix Police Department, officers responded to  a reported shooting in the parking lot of a hotel in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GjrtP9EE2as4bdxC6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">48th Avenue and McDowell Road<\/a>\u00a0around 5:39 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived on scene, they reportedly found 48-year-old Delvecchio Smith suffering from at least one gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Smith was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Smith was later pronounced dead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are still investigating what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to contact <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/silent-witness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Silent Witness<\/a>\u00a0at 480-WITNESS (948-6377) or 480-TESTIGO (837-8446) for Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KTAR923\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @KTAR923<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We want to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px;\">Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/arizona-news\/man-dies-west-phoenix-shooting\/5765650\/mailto:stories@ktar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 A man died at the hospital after a shooting in west Phoenix on Saturday morning, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":332363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[7155,5229,5643,1587,316,1589,7154,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-334245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-92-3-ktar","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-and-arizona-breaking-news-and-news-headlines-home","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115441529335745271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}