Phoenix Police Department officers were called to a shooting scene at the intersection of Missouri Avenue and 7th Avenue where a man was shot and later died at the hospital on Saturday.
According to the Phoenix Police Department, just after 2:00 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the area of 5500 North 7th Avenue. As officers arrived in the area, they found an adult male, later identified as 54-year-old Stephen Guardino suffering from a serious gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital where he later died as a result of his injury.
Detectives believe that Guardino was driving in the area and exited his vehicle to confront an adult woman who was inside her vehicle. The woman was stopped at the intersection of Missouri Avenue and 7th Avenue. The woman shot Guardino from inside her car and had stayed on scene to speak with officers.
Details of what led to this incident are still being investigated by detectives. The involved woman was interviewed and later released pending further investigation.
People have gotten too comfortable with being unhinged at imagined slights and that’s a problem for everyone. A word of advice – rather than confront someone, just stay in your car and call the cops or get over it and drive on.
I agree with Mr Dweller,
Another story claims both had stopped and got out of their cars and were in a road rage verbal argument, when the Man then spit on the Woman. This caused the Woman to shoot the Man.
I wonder; If the genders were reversed, would the Man have been arrested for shooting someone who only spit at him?
Play silly games in traffic and win stupid prizes. In this case, death won…..Feel sorry for the woman because she was scared what the idiot was going to do. I am afraid I would be in the same position if someone did that to me.
Doesn’t sound like a clear case of self defense to me. The woman appeared to have had other options other than to shoot. If the man approached the vehicle angrily, this is not a reason to pull out a weapon and kill the guy. Unless I’m missing something here, this woman needs to be prosecuted.
Absolutely tragic but who can blame her?
Exit your vehicle and approach another driver and you should expect to be shot. New reality.
Hardly sounds like self defense when he never tried to force his way inside her car and presumably didn’t garner a weapon? Could she not simply drive away? This story lacks much detail, but on the surface, this woman should be charged with a crime and be made to justify she feared for her life and had no alternatives than to take this man’s life?