Arthur Johnson was a 37-year-old male whose race or ethnicity was not specified in publicly available reports, from Phoenix, Arizona. On the afternoon of December 29, 2020, Phoenix police were dispatched to a report of a family fight at a residence near the intersection of 11th Avenue and Buckeye Road, close to downtown Phoenix. When officers arrived at around 3:30 p.m., they found Johnson had been shot; he was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to local news coverage, the incident was treated from the outset as a domestic or family disturbance that had escalated into gunfire rather than a random attack. At the scene, police noted that a woman who was involved in the shooting did not leave; she remained there, spoke with officers, and cooperated with investigators as they documented the scene and tried to determine exactly what had happened inside the home and in the moments before the shot was fired.
Detectives said the case would be submitted to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for review, a step that typically allows prosecutors to decide whether the facts support criminal charges, self-defense, or some other legal conclusion. The initial reporting available online does not describe any immediate arrest at the scene, and follow-up public coverage located through later memorial and case-tracking entries continues to list the death but does not document a subsequent indictment, trial, or conviction connected to Johnson’s killing, leaving the ultimate charging decision and legal outcome unclear in the public record.
In the years since the shooting, Johnson’s name has appeared on online memorial and case-tracking sites that compile victims of gun violence and unsolved or unresolved killings. A memorial entry on a national gun-violence remembrance site lists him as having been lost to gun violence in Phoenix on December 29, 2020, and shows that dozens of virtual candles have been lit in his honor. A separate homicide-tracking site records his basic details, confirms the date and city of his death, and links back to the original news reports about the family fight and shooting near 11th Avenue and Buckeye Road, but notes that community members are still being asked to share any additional information or updates about the case.
