Scene of alleged Phoenix road rage shooting on Dec. 9, 2021.Photo: azfamily/ youtube
A Phoenix woman is dead from what police are calling a homicide tied to a possible road-rage shooting.
Police who responded to the scene of a white SUV that had crashed into a wall just before 2 p.m. Thursday found the driver, 38-year-old Stella Montes, suffering from a gunshot wound, Phoenix police said in a news release.
Montes was rushed to a hospital but died from her injury.
Brooke Raspa, a woman who lives on the other side of the wall near the north Phoenix intersection where the accident occurred, said she heard eight to 10 gunshots prior to the crash and “felt my whole house vibrate when the van hit the wall,” reportsAZFamily.com.
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Raspa said she then heard screams for help from someone who turned out to be the victim’s daughter.
She said the daughter described the incident, saying that Montes allegedly pulled up behind another vehicle at the intersection and then honked the horn, trying to prod the driver in front to move forward.
“This investigation is in the preliminary stages,” police said in the statement released Friday. “Detectives are working to determine more information about what led up to the incident.”
Said Raspa: “You have to be a very angry person to even have the mindset to [think], I’m going to kill this person because they went around me. I mean, who does that? And to take someone’s life because of it is so sad to me.”
Police asked witnesses or anyone with information to call 602-262-6151 or 480-WITNESS (948-6377), or dial 480-TESTIGO (837-8446) for Spanish.
source: people.com
