Christopher Kershaw, a 58-year-old White man, was killed in the early morning hours of June 19, 2024, after a verbal dispute in the 5300 block of East 5th Street in Tucson escalated to gunfire. The argument involved an adult woman and her male companion; the male produced a firearm and shot Kershaw. Emergency responders from the Tucson Police Department’s Midtown Division and the Tucson Fire Department found Kershaw with obvious gunshot trauma and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The two suspects had already fled in a vehicle before officers arrived.

Tucson Police Homicide detectives identified the escape vehicle and its license plate with help from the Midtown Community Response Team and Tech Investigations Unit, which led investigators to Sierra Vista and to an unrelated incident in Bisbee involving a male and female matching the suspects’ descriptions. The male suspect, identified as Jacob Patrick Netherby, was later located in Cochise County. When officers attempted to stop him he led them on a high-speed pursuit along Naco Highway and fired at pursuing officers from his vehicle’s rear window. An officer returned fire, Netherby’s vehicle crashed, and he was transported to a Tucson hospital with injuries. The investigation into Kershaw’s death is ongoing.

Did anyone in the Tucson area see activity near East 5th Street around 5:30 a.m. that morning or have information about the vehicle involved?