On the afternoon of January 22, 2023, police in Phoenix responded to a report of an injured person at a home near 51st Avenue and Warner Street and found a double homicide. Twenty-eight-year-old Cameron Brown and his 27-year-old fiancée, Asya Ribble, had been shot and killed inside the residence. Their two young children, a 6-year-old autistic son and a 2-year-old daughter, were found in the home and were physically unharmed.

Neighbors reported a chilling exchange just before police arrived: a man telling a crying woman not to go inside because of what she would see, a conversation that prompted a 911 call. Phoenix homicide detectives identified 39-year-old Leroy Malone as a suspect and learned an adult female was likely with him as the pair fled the state. Information on the suspects was shared with law enforcement nationwide.

The pursuit ended in Minneola, Kansas, when Clark County deputies located Malone and the woman. A confrontation turned into a shootout; Malone was shot and killed by deputies, the woman was critically wounded and hospitalized, and multiple deputies were also injured, one in serious condition in the ICU.