Seventeen-year-old Marc Leyva was shot and killed in Phoenix on the evening of November 28, 2023. Leyva had driven his mother’s car to meet a friend at an apartment complex near 7th Avenue and Alta Vista Road with the intent of buying a firearm. What followed was a staged sale that turned out to be a premeditated robbery. Responding to reports of a shooting around 9 p.m., Phoenix police found Leyva with multiple gunshot wounds and dozens of spent casings at the scene; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators say four teenagers conspired to rob Leyva while pretending to sell him a gun. Arrests were made of 18-year-old Dareon Harris, 19-year-old Leonard Brown, 18-year-old Takari Humphreys, and a male juvenile; they were charged with first-degree murder, attempted robbery, and aggravated assault and later admitted involvement in the planned robbery that led to Leyva’s death. Does anyone have information about Leyva’s movements that night or the people he was meeting?