In the early hours of April 15, 2021, Phillip Bachelder, 52, was found on the third floor of the Wild Horse Pass Casino parking garage near Chandler, Arizona, with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers from the Gila River Police Department had responded to reports of gunfire around 2 a.m. and encountered a man, identified as 37-year-old Jonathan Lorenz, firing at a woman who was attempting to flee.

An exchange of gunfire between Lorenz and officers followed; no one was hit in that shootout and the woman and two officers were not physically injured. Lorenz was apprehended after a brief pursuit. Investigators say Lorenz had been stalking his ex-girlfriend, had vandalized her car, and may have tracked her to the casino with a GPS device; he reportedly waited in the bed of a pickup truck and opened fire when he saw her with Bachelder. Family members remember Bachelder as someone who stepped in front of the bullets to protect another.

Does anyone have information about that night at Wild Horse Pass or knew Phillip Bachelder?