Curtis Eugene West Jr, a 25-year-old Black man from Phoenix, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 2022, in the parking lot of The Lounge Soho nightclub in Mesa, near Southern Avenue and Alma School Road. Officers responding after reports of gunfire sometime after 2 a.m., with some accounts placing the response around 2:20 a.m., found West and 23-year-old Willie D’Angelo Love of Maricopa lying in the parking lot with obvious gunshot wounds; both were pronounced dead at the scene. Two additional people were wounded and taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A silver passenger car was seen fleeing, pursued and stopped a short distance away; three occupants were detained, a discarded gun was later located along the vehicle’s route, and two people were arrested on charges described as not directly associated with the homicide while a third was released. Southern Avenue among Mesa’s unsolved 2022 homicides, and no homicide charges have been publicly announced in connection with West’s death as of January 10, 2023.

If anyone has information about that night or knew Curtis, please share what is known.