Phoenix Shooting Turns Fatal: Suspect Surrenders at US-Mexico Border

Phoenix police were dispatched to a neighborhood near McDowell Road and 51st Avenue on Wednesday morning following a shooting incident.

PHOENIX — The suspect in a fatal shooting on Friday turned himself in at the US-Mexico border later that evening. Authorities identified the suspect as 20-year-old Miguel Angel Rievoles Perez.

The incident occurred at approximately 9:55 a.m. when police responded to the scene. Upon arrival, officers discovered a man who had been shot, later identified as 62-year-old Jose Perez Olvera. Olvera was pronounced dead at the scene by Phoenix firefighters.

Witnesses informed officers that Perez had fled immediately after the shooting. By Friday evening, Perez presented himself to Border Patrol agents at the Nogales port of entry in southern Arizona.

Phoenix police subsequently took Perez into custody, and he is now booked in Maricopa County Jail. Charges against him include second-degree murder and discharging a firearm within city limits.