MESA, Ariz. (AP) – A domestic dispute erupted into a double slaying after a possible good Samaritan stopped by a crashed SUV in a Phoenix suburb, police said Wednesday.
Police in Mesa, Arizona, said in a court document that 38-year-old Christopher Glen Wright told them he shot a man who pulled up in a pickup early Tuesday morning next to where Wright had intentionally crashed.
Police later identified the man who was killed as 49-year-old Tomas Olivas Ornelas.
According to the court documents, Ornelas’ pickup had stopped at a roundabout at a freeway interchange where Wright had crashed in an attempt to kill his wife, 41-year-old Nasbah Laverne Wright.
Detective Nikolas Rasheta, a Mesa police spokesman, said it’s not certain why Ornelas stopped, but he may have been a good Samaritan trying to help.