Shawn D’Brito was killed after a home invasion and robbery in north Phoenix on the night of April 11, 1984. He and his girlfriend, 18-year-old Robin Lynn Cady, returned to the mobile home where Cady rented a room and walked into a violent robbery already in progress. The intruders, identified as co-worker John Nabors and Michael Emerson Correll (introduced to the homeowner as Rick), bound several people with duct tape, took marijuana and about $4,700 in cash, then forced Shawn, Robin, and landlord Guy Snelling into vehicles and drove them to a remote desert area north of Phoenix. There, Snelling was shot in the back of the head but survived; Nabors then took the gun and fatally shot Shawn and Robin at close range.

Debra Rosen, who had been left at the trailer, was later found strangled in the mobile home. Snelling survived and identified both assailants to police. Nabors died by suicide during an armed confrontation with officers; Correll was arrested on April 20, 1984, returned to Arizona, tried, convicted on multiple counts including three counts of first-degree murder, and sentenced to death for the three killings.

If anyone knew Shawn or has information about that night, please share what you can.