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Ten-year-old Summer Mellody Bell Brown was shot and killed in Phoenix, Arizona, on the evening of April 3, 2019, in what police describe as an act of road rage. Summer, a fifth-grader at Holdeman Elementary, was riding with her father, mother, and sister when the family’s vehicle was followed by a white pickup truck after her father, Dharquintium Brown, reportedly cut off the other driver. As the family pulled into their driveway the pickup stopped behind them, the driver exited and opened fire on the car.

Both Summer and her father were struck; Summer died at a local hospital and her father survived after treatment. Her mother and sister were not physically injured but witnessed the shooting. Phoenix Police released a composite sketch and surveillance images of a white Ford F-150 and say community tips helped identify a person of interest. Two days later police arrested 20-year-old Joshua Gonzalez; officers located the pickup, found it had been altered with new tires and wheels, and recovered a handgun at Gonzalez’s residence that was forensically linked to the shooting. Gonzalez was charged with first-degree murder and three counts of aggravated assault and held on one-million-dollar bond.

Does anyone have information about the vehicle, its movements that evening, or other details that could help clarify what led to this deadly confrontation?