PHOENIX — The woman who died in a shooting in west Phoenix late Wednesday evening has been identified, police said.
The shooting reportedly happened in a neighborhood near 83rd Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road around 10:15 p.m. When officers arrived in the area, they found 25-year-old Jennifer Jazmin Lopez with a gunshot wound.
First responders pronounced her dead on the scene, police said.
Detectives took over the investigation and learned that 24-year-old Steven Gault III was responsible for the shooting death of Lopez.
Gault was booked on one count of manslaughter, police said.
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