On Sunday morning, February 14, 2021, a verbal altercation near 15th Avenue and Missouri Avenue in Phoenix escalated into a shooting. At about 11:44 a.m., 19-year-old Isaac Luis Arechiga was struck by gunfire. He was transported to a local hospital with a life-threatening wound and later died there.

Phoenix Police Homicide investigators interviewed witnesses at the scene and continued the investigation over the following month. Their work produced probable cause identifying 18-year-old Brandon Ortiz as a suspect; Ortiz was located and arrested on March 25, 2021, and booked on a charge of Second-Degree Murder in connection with Isaac Arechiga’s death.

If anyone witnessed the altercation or has information about what led to the shooting, please share tips with the Phoenix Police.