{"id":466090,"date":"2025-12-23T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:08:20","slug":"man-and-woman-dead-child-safe-after-apparent-murder-suicide-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/466090\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and woman dead, child safe, after apparent murder-suicide in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX \u2014 A man and woman are dead, and a child was found safe, after an apparent murder-suicide in Phoenix early Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Police say they attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle near 7th Avenue and Dobbins Road sometime around 2:30 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n

The driver, identified by police as 23-year-old Alexis Torres, fled and barricaded himself in a nearby home. A child was then discovered in Torres’ vehicle after he fled into the home.<\/p>\n

Police say the child, a three-year-old, was believed to have been taken by Torres around 10 p.m. Sunday night from a home in Avondale.<\/p>\n

As authorities negotiated with Torres, he reportedly shot himself. Torres was taken to the hospital, where he later died. <\/p>\n

Approximately an hour later, police were called to the area near 67th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road for a report of a woman who had been shot.<\/p>\n

Police located a 30-year-old woman in the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds, who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

The suspect in the shooting had left the area in a vehicle, which police later learned was Torres’ vehicle involved in the earlier traffic stop.<\/p>\n

Police say the child was later returned to family members unharmed and that Torres previously was in a relationship with the woman, but is not the child’s father or legal guardian.<\/p>\n

Police say the woman killed in the shooting was the child’s mother.<\/p>\n

Officials are investigating what led up to the series of events.<\/p>\n

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