Overview

• The verdict covers a three-week series of shootings in late 2017 across Phoenix and Glendale that left eight people dead.
• Victims included Cooksey’s mother and stepfather, a security guard walking to his girlfriend’s apartment, and a woman later found in an alley after a sexual assault.
• Police arrested Cooksey at a blood-spattered apartment, where evidence collected at the scene linked him to several other killings.
• Investigators recovered a gun used in multiple crimes along with a victim’s necklace and the vehicle keys of the woman found in the alley.
• Cooksey pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations, with authorities not releasing a motive as the case moved forward after years of delays.