Joshua Jackson, a 40-year-old White male from Phoenix, Arizona, was found fatally shot in a concrete culvert on July 4, 2017, in the north Phoenix desert near 31st Avenue and Deer Valley Road. Responding police and fire personnel discovered him around mid-day lying on a makeshift bed, wearing only underwear, with multiple gunshot wounds; the medical examiner documented five gunshot injuries and ruled the manner of death a homicide.

The culvert was known as a place where people experiencing homelessness sometimes sheltered, and initial information indicated Jackson had been living unsheltered in the area. Detectives focused on a nearby resident, 36-year-old John Adam Bachler, who had repeatedly complained about homeless people and who reportedly made online and in-person statements about killing transients. Surveillance footage from the evening of July 3 showed Bachler with a holstered handgun and a plastic shopping bag before he walked toward the culvert. Investigators say a single 9mm shell casing was recovered near Jackson’s body and that Bachler later admitted to shooting Jackson during a recorded interview when arrested in November 2018.

What details might people who lived near 31st Avenue and Deer Valley Road in July 2017 recall that could shed more light on this case?