Brett Berholtz, 23, was fatally shot on the night of January 16, 2016, in the parking lot of the Terrace Park apartments in west Phoenix near 81st–83rd Avenue and Indian School Road. Officers arrived about 10:30 p.m. and found Berholtz and a 22-year-old woman with gunshot wounds; both were taken to the hospital, where Berholtz died and the woman was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators concluded the attack was a drive-by shooting: a passenger vehicle drove into the lot, turned around, and opened fire while the victims were outside retrieving a phone from a car. A third person with the pair was uninjured and later identified the vehicle as linked to a residence suspected of ties to the Mexican drug cartel.

About eleven days later the female survivor repeatedly spoke a sequence of letters and numbers in her sleep; her mother recorded them and investigators recognized a license plate number. Police located the suspected vehicle and on January 27 arrested a 15-year-old and 21-year-old Fernando Joseph Valdez, each booked on charges including murder and attempted murder. The case was later listed as solved after those arrests and charges were filed. Does anyone have information about the Terrace Park parking lot that night or knew Brett personally who can help fill gaps in what happened?