On June 22, 2019, deputies from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to an apartment complex on Tucson’s northwest side after reports of a shooting. The complex, located near the 7400 block of North Mona Lisa Road, became the center of a rapidly unfolding investigation when officers arrived and found a man suffering from apparent gunshot wounds in the parking lot.
The victim was later identified as Benjamin Jordan Palmer, a 24-year-old Black / African American male, who was transported to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
According to contemporaneous local reporting, detectives determined that the shooting followed an argument in the apartment complex’s parking lot. What began as a dispute between individuals escalated into gunfire, leaving Palmer mortally wounded. The Sheriff’s Department publicly stated that there were “no outstanding suspects,” indicating that investigators believed they had identified and located the person or people involved rather than searching for an unknown assailant at large.
Data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive for the incident lists Palmer as the victim and classifies the associated subject-suspect as “unharmed, arrested,” which signals that at least one suspect in the case was taken into custody rather than killed or fleeing the scene. However, the open sources available do not name the suspect, spell out the exact charges, or describe any subsequent court proceedings, so the ultimate legal disposition—such as conviction, plea, or dismissal—cannot be determined from publicly accessible records alone.
Online memorials and fundraising pages show how deeply Palmer’s death affected those who knew him. A GoFundMe campaign organized shortly after the shooting describes his family still grappling with sudden loss and uncertainty about the expenses they would face, while also expressing gratitude for the community’s support and acts of kindness. On a separate remembrance page dedicated to victims of gun violence, friends and relatives recall him as a warm, thoughtful, and creative person, someone viewed as family by those close to him and remembered as a gentle presence whose life was cut short far too soon.
Collectively, these sources paint a picture of a late-night confrontation in a northwest Tucson apartment parking lot that turned deadly, a rapid response by deputies and detectives who concluded the suspect was accounted for and made at least one arrest, and a grieving family and community left to honor Benjamin Jordan Palmer’s memory while the precise details of the justice system’s response remain largely undocumented in the public record.
