Arizona bar shooting ends with two children dead in Phoenix home
A midnight bar shooting in Glendale turned into a Phoenix home death scene hours later, leaving two children dead and investigators tracing one violent chain.
A Glendale bar confrontation turned into a Phoenix home death scene before dawn, with gunfire at Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill followed by the deaths of a 10-year-old boy and an 18-month-old girl inside a house on West Paradise Lane.
Phoenix police identified the suspect as 38-year-old Andrea Clarice Davis. Investigators said the chain began just after midnight on May 25, when Davis went to the bar near 61st Avenue and Bell Road and found her husband there with another woman. Police said Davis opened fire, striking her husband and the woman with him, then fled the scene in a gray SUV.
The wounded woman was shot in the back of the head and was expected to survive. The husband told officers that Davis arrived, began shooting and left. Police said he then started receiving text messages from Davis saying she was going to harm their children, followed by a message that included an image of one child bleeding from the head.
Around 2:25 a.m. to 2:30 a.m., Phoenix officers forced their way into the family home at 4800 West Paradise Lane because the situation appeared dire. Inside, they found Davis and the two children dead. Phoenix Fire Department pronounced all three dead at the scene, and police later said a handgun was recovered during execution of a search warrant.
Investigators believe Davis shot the children before taking her own life. Glendale police requested that Phoenix take over the home-death investigation, while Glendale continues to investigate the shooting at the bar. Phoenix police also included domestic-violence hotline and support resources in its advisory, framing the case as a domestic-violence tragedy that moved from a public place to a private one in less than three hours.
Local reporting identified the husband as Nolan Davis and said the couple had been separated and were in the process of divorcing when the shootings occurred. A memorial later appeared near the home, and a relative of the children’s father said the children “didn’t deserve it.”
What began at Tailgaters ended behind the door on Paradise Lane, and the path between those two scenes is now the core of the case.
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