PHOENIX — A woman is dead after the car she was in was shot at early Monday morning, Phoenix police said. Police have taken a 19-year-old suspect into custody.
Police said officers were dispatched to an unknown trouble call at a gas station at 27th Avenue and McDowell Road.
When officers arrived, they located a woman, later identified as 35-year-old Yenni Dominguez Leyva, with a gunshot wound.
Police said Dominguez-Leyva was removed from the vehicle with two other adults and five children. Firefighters treated Dominguez Leyva, but she died from her injuries on scene.
Court records show a 1-year-old child was seated on the victim's lap in the front passenger seat.
The victims told officers a group of suspects were in front of a home in a nearby neighborhood when the shooting occurred, and they believed the suspects went back inside the home after the shooting.
Officers located the home and attempted to communicate with the people inside. When there was no response, detectives secured a warrant to enter the home. Once inside, they detained two adult males and two juvenile males.
After speaking to the witnesses, detectives learned the victims' vehicle was driving through a neighborhood near 32nd Avenue and McDowell Road after picking up a relative when the suspects began firing at their vehicle.
Their vehicle sped off, but the other passengers learned the gunfire hit Dominguez Leyva, so they stopped at a nearby gas station.
The suspects were later booked for multiple felonies, including second-degree murder and aggravated assault.
Martin Ramirez, 19, has been identified as one of the suspects who's been booked into jail.
Ramirez allegedly told police he shot at the vehicle after he reported hearing a gunshot coming from the car, court records show.
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