On the morning of May 28, 2024, a woman checking on her boyfriend found 22-year-old Carlos Mercado Chavez unresponsive inside his car on the 2900 block of East Michael Drive, near 28th Street and Greenway Road in north Phoenix. Phoenix police were called about 8 a.m., and detectives opened a homicide investigation after Chavez was found to have been shot and killed.

Investigators identified two suspects in the weeks that followed. On June 21, 2024, officers arrested 19-year-old Derrick Teague, and a day later a juvenile (under 18) was also taken into custody. Authorities say the shooting appears to have grown out of a planned robbery that escalated into a deadly confrontation, and both suspects were booked on multiple felony counts including murder and armed robbery; investigators do not believe additional people were involved.

Does anyone in north Phoenix have information about activity on East Michael Drive around May 28 that could help this case?