The Phoenix and Chandler shootings happened less than 12 hours apart and are now under outside review.
PHOENIX, AZ — Police in Phoenix and Chandler fatally shot two armed men during separate domestic disturbance calls from late Friday to Saturday morning, leaving two suspects dead and placing both shootings under outside investigation, authorities said.
The shootings brought new attention to domestic violence calls that can turn deadly within minutes for families, neighbors and responding officers. Phoenix police said one man had a knife and was chasing another man near 35th Avenue and Greenway Road. Chandler police said 32-year-old Jeremiah Louis Partridge had a shotgun outside a home near McQueen and Ray roads. No officers were injured in either case.
The first shooting began around 11 p.m. Friday, June 26, when Phoenix officers were called to a home near 35th Avenue and Greenway Road for a reported domestic disturbance. Phoenix Police Sgt. John Buchanan said the first information from dispatchers told officers that family members were fighting and that one person was armed with a knife. Officers arrived and began speaking with a woman in front of the home. A man then came out holding a knife and started chasing another man in the driveway, police said. Officers ordered him to drop the knife, but he did not comply, according to police. Buchanan said officers then fired, struck the man and immediately began lifesaving aid before Phoenix firefighters took him to a hospital, where he died.
Police said the knife was recovered at the Phoenix scene. The man’s name had not been released as of Sunday, and officials had not said how many officers fired or how many shots were fired. Police said no other suspects were being sought and no one else in the community was hurt. Greenway Road was expected to remain closed near 35th Avenue through Saturday morning as investigators worked the scene. Buchanan called the outcome tragic for the officers and the family. The Arizona Department of Public Safety is handling the criminal investigation into the shooting, while Phoenix police said the department will conduct its own internal review. The incident was reported as the 24th officer-involved shooting in Maricopa County in 2026 and the 47th in Arizona.
The second shooting happened Saturday morning in Chandler after police received multiple 911 calls about a domestic incident in the 900 block of East Laredo Street, near McQueen and Ray roads. Chandler police said the calls came shortly after 10 a.m. from neighbors and from a woman at the scene. Officers arrived about 10 minutes later. Police said the first officer saw Partridge in the front yard with a shotgun and saw a woman sitting in a nearby vehicle. Chandler police spokesperson Marysol Green said the officer repeatedly ordered Partridge to drop the weapon before firing multiple rounds. Officers began lifesaving measures until Chandler Fire Department crews arrived. Fire personnel pronounced Partridge dead at the scene.
Investigators had not said whether Partridge fired the shotgun, whether he tried to damage the nearby vehicle or whether police had responded to earlier domestic calls involving him. No officers or bystanders were injured in the Chandler shooting. The Mesa Police Department is leading that investigation as part of the East Valley Critical Incident Response Team, a regional process used when officers are involved in serious incidents. Chandler police identified Partridge as the man killed, but officials had not released more details about the woman in the vehicle or the relationship between the people involved. Authorities also had not announced whether body-camera video, 911 audio or written reports would be released.
The two scenes unfolded in different parts of the Valley but followed a similar pattern: officers were sent to domestic disputes, arrived with reports of weapons and fired after they said the men did not obey commands. The Phoenix shooting centered on a knife and a person being chased outside a home. The Chandler shooting centered on a shotgun and a woman in a nearby vehicle. Both cases are now separated from the officers’ own departments for the main criminal review. That outside review does not decide internal discipline, but it is meant to examine the evidence, interview witnesses and determine whether the shootings violated criminal law.
Neighbors in Chandler described a tense morning after the gunfire. Monique Tep, who lives nearby, said she heard several shots while drinking coffee. “I heard the gunshot, like bang, bang, like four or five times,” Tep said. Another resident, Yvette Lagunes, said she had seen trouble in the area before and had previous encounters with Partridge. Lagunes said one earlier encounter left her family afraid to leave the house. After Saturday’s shooting, she said police vehicles filled the area and the violence added to her family’s decision to leave the neighborhood. Police have not confirmed all of the earlier incidents described by neighbors.
The investigations remain active. The Arizona Department of Public Safety is reviewing the Phoenix shooting, and Mesa police are reviewing the Chandler shooting. Officials had released Partridge’s name in Chandler but had not released the name of the man killed in Phoenix by Sunday, June 28. More information could come through investigative summaries, video releases or agency briefings.
Author note: Last updated June 28, 2026.