A Phoenix family was shattered in the spring of 1999 when Andrew Parks was shot dead alongside his sister Shelly Parks and a man known as Eddie. The killings took place on a Saturday evening in early April after Brian Dann, Shelly’s boyfriend, reportedly went to a former girlfriend’s home to borrow a .38 caliber revolver. Dann told others he had been shot at by Andrew earlier that day and said he intended to retrieve belongings from Andrew’s apartment.

That evening Dann went to the apartment where Andrew, Shelly, and Eddie were present. Following a confrontation in which Dann felt slighted and laughed at, he opened fire, killing all three. Police arrested Brian Dann on Wednesday, April 7, 1999, and he was later tried and convicted by a jury on multiple counts, including murder and burglary; a sentence of death was imposed in January 2002. Some premeditated murder convictions were later reversed, but the first-degree felony murder conviction and the burglary conviction were affirmed.