On the evening of September 19, 2019, a burst of gunfire in a Phoenix apartment complex parking lot near 30th and East Fillmore streets left 19-year-old Alexander Luis Cruz Perez dead. The same incident also killed another man and wounded a 17-year-old boy who survived and was reported in stable condition after hospital treatment. Emergency responders pronounced one victim at the scene; another died after being taken to hospital. Phoenix police secured the area around the Celebrity Theatre and deployed K-9 units to search nearby neighborhoods as investigators from the Violent Crimes Bureau canvassed for evidence and witnesses.

Friends and family remembered Alexander as loving, charismatic, caring, respectful and goofy, expressing grief in online memorials. Detectives urged anyone with information to come forward, including anonymously via Silent Witness. No arrests or publicly reported identities of suspects are listed, and the motive remains unclear. If anyone knew Alexander or has information about the shooting, please share what’s known with investigators.