Overview
- Police say the family attended an Arizona Cardinals open practice and the parents told officers they had been walking with their two children for about three hours, a Sunday outing that occurred in roughly 108-degree heat.
- A female bystander told police she offered the family a ride, reported that the father punched her vehicle and then fell, and officers say the mother appeared sick and the father was stumbling.
- Body camera video and officer reports show a confrontation in which an officer ordered the father to release a child he was holding by the wrist and then restrained him after the father refused.
- Ryan and May Mullin were booked on a felony child abuse charge, Ryan also faces three counts of disorderly conduct, and both were released with court-ordered supervised contact and pretrial alcohol monitoring.
- Key facts remain unresolved in reporting: officials have not released any blood-alcohol measurements or detailed information about the children’s medical condition, and investigators say the case is ongoing.