A dispute over a battery charger turned deadly for 69-year-old Glendale resident Hubert Moore. On the evening of March 19, 2021, Glendale patrol officers responded to a 911 report of a shooting at an apartment near 59th Avenue and Bethany Home Road and found Moore with multiple gunshot wounds. Officers used issued trauma kits and rendered first aid before he was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

Moore survived long enough to speak with detectives and identified his assailant as 38-year-old Dion Trent Walton of Phoenix, saying Walton arrived armed and confronted him about the battery charger before shooting him multiple times. Moore died of his injuries on April 26, 2021. Detectives located Walton in Phoenix on May 3, 2021; he was found with a firearm, admitted to the shooting, and was arrested on one count of 2nd-degree murder and one count of weapons misconduct by a prohibited possessor.

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