PHOENIX — Phoenix police are investigating a deadly shooting overnight after a woman was found dead outside of a vehicle near 27th Avenue and McDowell Road.
Police say officers were dispatched to an "unknown trouble" call in the area around 12:45 a.m. Monday where they located the victim, who has since been identified as 35-year-old Yenni Dominguez-Leyva.
She was a passenger in a vehicle, which was also occupied by a man and five children, that had been shot at near 32nd Avenue and McDowell Road. No one else in the vehicle was injured.
Dominguez-Leyva reportedly died from her injuries.
Police obtained a search warrant for a house where the suspects were last seen. At the house, they located two adult men and two teenagers. They detained all four but one of the men has since been released.
The other three were booked for multiple felonies to include second-degree murder and aggravated assault.
According to police documents, the people in the victim's vehicle were reportedly picking up a 16-year-old from a house when multiple shots were fired at them.
Dominguez-Leyva was holding a 1-year-old child at the time she was shot, according to court paperwork.
The suspects reportedly told police they shot at the vehicle “after they thought they heard the sound of gunfire and had received phone calls from a person they believed had robbed them” previously and was threatening to come to their house.
Documents show one of the suspects admitted to hearing what he thought were shots, but didn’t see any shots being fired from the victim’s vehicle.
The other three were booked for multiple felonies to include second-degree murder and aggravated assault.
