Phoenix Murder-Suicide: Suspect Dies After Standoff, Police Say
Detectives are examining motive with attention to a child found unharmed in the suspect’s car.
Overview
- Officers found 30-year-old Selena Felix fatally shot in the street near Lower Buckeye Road in west Phoenix around 3:30 a.m.
- Investigators identified 23-year-old Alexis Torres as the suspect after he fled an attempted traffic stop and barricaded himself in a home.
- Negotiators from Phoenix’s Special Assignments Unit engaged Torres before he suffered a self-inflicted gunshot and later died at a hospital.
- Police linked the fleeing vehicle to the shooting and recovered an uninjured young child from the car.
- The child, taken from an Avondale home, was turned over to the Arizona Department of Child Safety as Avondale police review that incident, and detectives have not disclosed any relationship or motive.