Overview
- Detectives submitted probable cause to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office against DuLance Morin, 47, in the Feb. 28 death of neighbor Maria Lewis on his Mesa doorstep.
- Morin, an investigator with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office since 2016, remains on administrative leave during the prosecutorial review.
- An internal AG’s Office email from Criminal Division Chief Nicholas Klingerman questioned whether the evidence supports negligent homicide and referenced self-defense statutes.
- Investigators reported Lewis’s DNA on a rock near the door, close-range stippling near her right eye, a bullet casing outside the home, and no visible front-door damage, with limited usable camera footage.
- Attorney General Kris Mayes called for a careful review and offered condolences to Lewis’s family, while the Fraternal Order of Police publicly supported Morin.