On the night of March 30, 2017, Erick Dominguez, a 23-year-old Hispanic / Latino male, was shot during an encounter in the parking lot of a Fry’s Food grocery store in Avondale, Arizona, near Buckeye Road and Avondale Boulevard. News reports describe how two vehicles were in the lot when occupants of one car opened fire on the other before both vehicles fled the scene.
The car carrying Dominguez left the parking lot and headed to a nearby fire station in an urgent attempt to get help after he had been struck once in the torso by a handgun round.
According to contemporaneous coverage, firefighters at the station immediately began care and arranged for Dominguez to be rushed to a hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. Despite those efforts, he died during the operation from the gunshot wound he suffered in the parking lot. Case summaries compiled later by crime-tracking organizations reiterate that his brother drove him to the fire station, that he was transported onward to medical care, and that he was pronounced dead the same night, emphasizing the suddenness with which a routine evening turned into a fatal encounter. Memorial pages created in his name list his full name as Erick Jeovanny Dominguez, give his dates of birth and death as October 5, 1993, and March 30, 2017, and show that his family arranged services through a Phoenix funeral home, underscoring that he was mourned within the broader West Valley community.
At the time of the shooting, Avondale police told reporters they were seeking to speak with two unidentified people who might have been involved in the gunfire or who could have information about what happened in the Fry’s parking lot. They did not immediately release descriptions of these individuals, nor did they publicly identify any suspect in the initial written coverage; instead, they simply stated that the investigation was active and that they were trying to piece together events from witness accounts and physical evidence. A later television segment from a local station, distributed online under the title “Suspect in Avondale homicide from March arrested,” reported that police had made an arrest connected to an Avondale homicide that had occurred nine months earlier, but the publicly visible description of that segment does not specify the victim’s name, charges, or outcome, and open-source records do not clearly confirm whether it referred to Dominguez’s case or another March homicide in the same city.
As of the most recent updates in 2025, online case-tracking entries dedicated specifically to Dominguez’s killing continue to ask the public for information and note a lack of publicly reported progress, with forum posts from interested users expressing frustration about the absence of detailed investigative updates or confirmation of a suspect being brought to trial. Taken together, the available sources document the essential facts of the shooting, the efforts to save his life, and the early search for people of interest, but they stop short of providing a clear, documented account of any named suspect, arrest details, or final resolution in the courts, leaving the case’s ultimate legal outcome opaque in the public record.
