In a quiet Glendale, Arizona home, a devastating sequence of events unfolded, leaving a family shattered and a community in mourning. On November 28, 2023, 39-year-old Katrina Comtois was tragically killed in an act of domestic violence. Her life was cut short when she was shot multiple times by her partner, 52-year-old Scott McKervey. The violence erupted at their residence near 51st Avenue and Peoria, a place that should have been a sanctuary for the couple and their three young children.
Following the horrific act, McKervey fled the scene, leaving behind a scene of unimaginable trauma. First responders rushed Comtois to a nearby hospital, but her injuries proved to be fatal. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was a frantic search for McKervey, a search that would come to a grim conclusion.
A short time later, law enforcement located McKervey near 59th Avenue and Peoria. As officers closed in, he took his own life, turning the gun on himself. His death at the hospital marked the final, tragic chapter in what police have described as a murder-suicide. Miraculously, the couple's three children, who were present in the home at the time of the shooting, were physically unharmed. Their lives, however, were irrevocably changed by the loss of both of their parents in a single, violent outburst. The community was left to grapple with the profound loss and the deep scars left by this domestic tragedy.
