{"id":818709,"date":"2026-05-24T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/818709\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:34:46","slug":"tolleson-house-party-shooting-leaves-man-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/818709\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolleson house party shooting leaves man in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/anp7najp242w8617.jpg\" alt=\"Suspects at large after opening fire at Tolleson house party\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>TOLLESON, Ariz.<\/strong> &#8211; A shooting at a Tolleson house party left a 21-year-old with life-threatening injuries on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Phoenix Police responded to reports of a shooting at a house party near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/WkG9H2G2DkZPMauZ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>101st Avenue and Weir Avenue<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>at 10:30 p.m. on May 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to witnesses, two groups fired shots at each other as the party was breaking up. A neighbor&#8217;s home surveillance video captured people screaming and running from the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A 21-year-old man was struck by gunfire. He was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he remains in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/krjn2r73nxhogpik.jpg\" alt=\"Police search for suspects after shooting at Tolleson house party\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">One home was struck by at least five bullets, hitting the front porch and a bedroom.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">In the 18 years Kelli Kirk has lived in her home, she&#8217;s said never once has there been a shooting, until Friday night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Minding my own business, going to sleep at night, and just heard the rattling, the gunfire, the crossfire,&#8221; Kirk said. &#8220;I have never been so happy that my son was not home that night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Now, several bullets are in his walls and vents.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;I told him to make sure that he came home tonight, early, don&#8217;t be out. It&#8217;s graduation time. People are dying. People are shooting. I don&#8217;t want him to be that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He told me he was safe and right when this happened I texted him and said please don\u2019t come home yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Kirk&#8217;s cameras show a woman seeking shelter as bullets flew at the home and clouds of dust pop up when they hit the walls.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;You could just hear kids checking on each other. Backyard\u2026we had probably 20 kids jumping the fence, so we had people in the backyard trying to figure out safety,&#8221; Kirk said. &#8220;You&#8217;re just in your house trying to make sure you&#8217;re good and not bring any of the chaos that has nothing to do with you in your home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">She hopes a situation like nthisever happens again.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;It doesn\u2019t make me feel great knowing that the repercussions could be detrimental to my family,&#8221; Kirk said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">\u00a0No suspects are in custody. It is unclear what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to call Silent Witness at 480-948-6377, or 480-837-8446 for Spanish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/WkG9H2G2DkZPMauZ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Map<\/strong><\/a> of the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Phoenix Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/tolleson\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tolleson<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOLLESON, Ariz. &#8211; A shooting at a Tolleson house party left a 21-year-old with life-threatening injuries on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":818710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,56474,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-818709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-tolleson","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116628873840622226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818709","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=818709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}