Overview
- Avondale Police identified 18-year-old Emilio Andrew Rivera as a person of interest in the Nov. 8 shooting death of 17-year-old Rhiana Kemplin.
- Rivera is jailed on charges unrelated to the homicide, and police have not disclosed the nature of those charges or announced homicide counts.
- Kemplin was shot at an apartment complex near Rancho Santa Fe Boulevard and McDowell Road and died at a hospital the same day.
- Police asked anyone with information to call 623-333-7000, and the department has said there is no broader threat to the public.
- Friends remember Kemplin as an Agua Fria High School senior and band member with cosmetology ambitions, while a family GoFundMe says she was shot while sleeping and a neighbor reported hearing two gunshots and screaming.