Phoenix Police (Arizona) just after 7:00 p.m. Friday January 15, 2016 began investigating a missing teen case at a home near 42nd Avenue and Cactus Road at the request of police officials in McHenry, Illinois. Police from McHenry, Illinois, northwest of Chicago, contacted Phoenix Police about 7 p.m. to request they check on the home near 42nd Avenue and Cactus Road where a missing 16-year-old girl was believed to have been brought to Arizona by her 24-year-old boyfriend, Alexander O’Neill.
At about 9:15 p.m. Phoenix police visited a second time when they discovered O’Neill’s vehicle at the home.
Police were speaking with O’Neill’s parents through a locked iron gate outside the front door of the home when two gunshots were heard inside the home. Police immediately entered the home and found a 24-year-old man dead or dying and the teen girl from McHenry, Illinois seriously injured with a gunshot wound.
The female teen was transported to a local hospital where she was listed in extremely critical condition.
The 24-year-old male, identified by police as Alexander O’Neill, was dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
JUST IN: Police ID suspect in double shooting last night as 24-year-old Alexander O'Neill. https://t.co/9Kl8PUoE4O pic.twitter.com/htFajKTqqF
— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) January 16, 2016
Phx PD says a 25-yr-old man shot 16-yr-old girl, a missing juvenile from Illinois. Man then turned gun on himself. https://t.co/PwC6hUdGwZ
— FOX 10 Phoenix (@FOX10Phoenix) January 16, 2016
UPDATE-double shooting in Phoenix: 25-year-old man shot has died; 16-year-old girl injured. https://t.co/dx2lovYB2h pic.twitter.com/S1b2agcG2f
— AZ Family (@azfamily) January 16, 2016
UPDATE per @PHXFire: 25-year-old man has died after being shot in head near 43rd Ave/Cactus. pic.twitter.com/CBpawGZi6l
— ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) January 16, 2016
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