On the late morning of September 3, 2019, Christopher Daine Kabbash Kindred, a 28-year-old white/Caucasian man, became involved in a confrontation outside a fast food restaurant in northwest Phoenix, Arizona. The dispute unfolded around 11:45 a.m. near the intersection of 19th Avenue and Mountain View Road, in the 9600 block of North 19th Avenue, an area lined with commercial businesses and drive-through eateries.
Witness information and police reports describe an argument between Christopher and another man in the parking area just outside the restaurant, an altercation that rapidly escalated from a verbal dispute into lethal violence.
During the argument, the other man, later identified by police as 33-year-old Jose Ramon Amparano, allegedly produced a firearm and shot Christopher in front of the restaurant. Officers were called to the scene just before noon and found him gravely wounded from the gunfire. Emergency medical personnel transported him to a nearby hospital, but despite medical efforts he died from his injuries a short time later. His death was subsequently listed on national gun-violence memorial sites and in Phoenix-based funeral home and obituary notices, which record that he passed away on Tuesday, September 3, 2019, in connection with the shooting in Phoenix.
According to police statements summarized in local news coverage, Amparano fled the scene on foot immediately after the shooting. Responding officers searched the surrounding area and located him not long afterward, taking him into custody without reported injury. Investigators reported that he and Christopher had been arguing immediately before the gun was drawn and that the victim was unarmed when he was shot. In a news release cited by multiple outlets, Phoenix police stated that Amparano admitted his involvement in the shooting during the course of his arrest.
Amparano was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of murder in connection with Christopher’s death, with public records listing a count of first-degree murder among the charges or suspected offenses associated with his arrest on that date. Police and media reports at the time described the case as stemming from a one-on-one altercation between the two men outside the restaurant; no additional suspects or accomplices have been publicly identified in relation to the shooting, and coverage focuses on Amparano as the sole named suspect arrested in Christopher’s killing.
