Overview
- Police responded around 6:30 a.m. to a home near Estrella Parkway and Lower Buckeye Parkway and found 41-year-old Antwan Jones Sr. unresponsive before he was pronounced dead at Abrazo Hospital.
- Officers arrested his sons, Dayvon Jones, 22, and Antwan Jones Jr., 23, with charges of second-degree murder and aggravated assault for Dayvon and aggravated assault for Antwan Jr.
- Court documents state the father punched Antwan Jr., after which Dayvon applied a chokehold for about 15 seconds and Antwan Jr. struck their father several times.
- The brothers told detectives they called 911, left for the police department, and said they acted out of fear, while family members reported prior assaults and alleged strangulation by the father.
- Both men are booked in Maricopa County jail on $500,000 bond as investigators continue to determine what led to the altercation and the official cause of death.