In the early morning hours of June 8, 2024, 52-year-old Tyrone Phillips was found with fatal gunshot wounds outside a residence near the intersection of Tuthill and Arlington roads in the Rainbow Valley area of Phoenix, Arizona. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the case as a homicide and conducted an extensive on-scene evidence search at the location where Phillips’s body was discovered.

No arrests have been announced and authorities have not publicly identified any suspects. The community has responded with tributes and memorials, with friends and family lighting candles and sharing photographs to remember his life. If anyone has information about what happened that morning or saw activity near Tuthill and Arlington roads around June 8, please contact the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.