Names Released In Shooting That Left 3 Dead

PHOENIX, AZ — Two 19-year-old men and one 16-year-old boy have been identified as those slain in an early Friday morning shooting.

The men shot and killed in a parking lot near the intersection of 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road were 19-year-old Victor M. Cruz, 19-year-old Avery Young and 16-year-old Salvador G. Medina, according to Phoenix police.

A fourth teenager who was shot during the incident is expected to survive his injuries, police said.

A fifth man who was not injured but was involved in the altercation was in police custody Friday morning, said Phoenix Police Department Sgt. Andy Williams.

Phoenix police believe that the shooting happened after the two groups of men and teenagers met in a parking lot to make some sort of business transaction that they set up via Facebook, Williams said. The situation escalated, and both groups fired at each other, he said.

Police are still in the preliminary stages of investigating the shooting, police said Friday, but they believed that everyone involved in the shooting was accounted for.