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On October 11, 2015, a visit to a Gilbert, Arizona, home ended in a fatal shooting. Seventeen-year-old Alexander ’Alex’ Tamborski was at his girlfriend’s mother’s house when a verbal dispute escalated and the mother’s roommate, 35-year-old Michael Crain, opened fire. Tamborski and the girlfriend’s 33-year-old mother, Stacey Steward, were killed; the couple’s teenage daughter escaped and alerted authorities.

Tamborski was a Corona Del Sol High School senior who also attended the East Valley Institute of Technology and had plans to become a pilot. The community brought in crisis counselors for grieving students, and a GoFundMe was set up to help his family with funeral costs.

After the shooting, Crain fled but was later found walking along a canal. Confronted by police, he made a threatening motion and was shot by officers, suffering critical injuries; he was arrested after hospital release and charged with two counts of first-degree murder plus related counts. Does anyone have memories of Alex or information about that night that could shed more light?