Mass Shootings Two Weekends In A Row In Phoenix: Police

PHOENIX, AZ — A mass shooting at a Phoenix strip mall over the weekend that left a teen girl dead and eight more people injured followed another mass shooting the weekend prior that left a young man dead and five teens injured, according to Phoenix police.

That's two young people killed and 12 more injured in mass shootings in Phoenix within a week's time, and those numbers don't include additional shootings in the city over the past 10 days that left even more people dead, according to police.

In total, in Phoenix, three people were shot to death last weekend and seven people were killed in shootings the previous weekend.

“The shooting of nine people that took the life of one person on Hatcher Road near 10th Avenue is deeply troubling and has shaken the Sunnyslope community," Debra Stark, Phoenix city councilwoman for District 3, said in a news release. "This violence has no place in our neighborhoods! Further troubling is an additional fatal shooting of a juvenile that happened not even a half mile away around the same time."

The shooting at the strip mall happened around 1 a.m. Saturday during a large gathering at the mall, near 10th Avenue and Hatcher Road, police said. Some sort of disagreement among several of the people gathered there ultimately escalated into a shooting, police said.

When officers arrived at the scene, people were fleeing in various directions.

A 14-year old girl who was shot was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to police.

Two women suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds and five men and a teenage boy suffered gunshot wounds that police did not believe to be life-threatening, police said.

Also over the weekend, a teenage boy was shot and killed just before midnight Friday, outside of his house near 13th and Vogel avenues, according to police.

He had just gone outside his house right before he was shot, police said.

The teen was found near the road. He was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead, police said.

Around 10:30 on Friday a man was found shot to death inside a vehicle near 39th and Grand avenues, according to police. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Anyone with information about any of the shootings is urged to call the Phoenix Police Department or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO for Spanish speakers.