Tony Shakir

How they died

Suicide

Maricopa Police Department officers responded to a call of shots fired. When officers arrived, they learned of a domestic dispute between an ex-husband and ex-wife and discovered Randy Phillips, 49, had already been fatally shot. A woman and two children were still inside the house with the shooter, identified as 38-year-old Tony Shakir. Negotiations with Shakir lasted more than five hours as officers were in contact with him via telephone. When police made their way inside the home, where Shakir was found dead in the garage from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Tony Shakir, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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