Willie D’Angelo Love, a 23-year-old Black/African American man from Maricopa, was fatally shot outside the Lounge Soho nightclub in Mesa, Arizona, shortly after 2 a.m. on June 5, 2022. Police found two men with obvious gunshot wounds in the club’s parking lot; both Love and 25-year-old Curtis Eugene West Jr. of Phoenix were pronounced dead at the scene. Two other people suffered non-life-threatening gunshot injuries and were hospitalized.

Officers reported the shooting happened as the club let out and multiple people had gathered in the parking area. A silver passenger car was seen speeding away; after a brief pursuit it was stopped, three occupants were detained and a discarded firearm was later found along the pursuit route. Two people from the car were arrested on charges described as not directly related to the nightclub homicides, and records do not identify anyone facing homicide charges in Love’s death. The Mesa Police Department listed the killings at the nightclub among unsolved cases and asked for tips.

If anyone was at the Lounge Soho that night or has information about who fired the shots, please contact the Mesa Police Department or Silent Witness.