Overview
- Phoenix police, which on Friday released critical‑incident videos, published 911 audio and body‑camera and drone footage from two mid‑March shootings that left two men dead.
- In the March 13 case near 35th Avenue and Osborn Road, officers chased Jason Anthony Arrieta after a domestic‑violence call, saw him carrying a rifle, issued repeated commands to stop, then fired; he later died at a hospital.
- In the March 15 case near 43rd Avenue and Camelback Road, officers pulled a woman and a young girl from a locked patio, deployed a drone, reported the suspect Justin Carl Schmidt shot at it, heard more gunfire inside, then fired from a rifle mounted on a police vehicle before drones found him unresponsive next to long guns.
- Arizona’s Department of Public Safety is leading the criminal investigations, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office will review for possible charges, Phoenix police opened internal reviews, and involved officers are on administrative leave.
- The department’s Critical Incident Briefings are curated timelines meant to show what officers saw and heard, so they inform the public but do not decide fault, and investigators will still sort out details such as the exact shot sequence.