Andrew Cole, 34, a White male, was killed by gunfire on the evening of October 23, 2015, during what authorities described as a violent dispute inside a home on Tucson’s southwest side. He had traveled from Peoria, Arizona, and was at a residence in the 7400 block of West Bopp Road, in an area between Old Tucson and Ryan Field west of the Tucson Mountains, when an argument between brothers inside the house escalated.
Around 7:20 p.m., a 911 call brought Pima County Sheriff’s deputies to the address, where they found Cole gravely wounded from a handgun shot. Deputies and emergency personnel attempted life-saving measures, but he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after their arrival.
Investigators quickly focused on the family members present. The victim was identified in official news reports as Andrew Brice Coleman, and some public records and memorial sites use that full name while certain homicide and case-tracking databases list him under the shorter name Andrew Cole, but they describe the same incident and circumstances in Tucson on the same date. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department reported that deputies found Cole’s brother, 32-year-old Richard Scott Coleman, still at the residence when they arrived. After interviewing those on scene and reviewing the initial evidence, detectives determined that the fatal shot had been fired during an altercation between the two brothers inside the home. Richard Scott Coleman was taken into custody that night and booked on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with his brother’s death, according to sheriff’s officials and contemporary local news coverage.
Publicly available summaries of the case emphasize that the confrontation was domestic in nature but note that the specific trigger for the argument and more detailed motive have not been fully disclosed in open sources. Crime-tracking and cold-case advocacy sites describe the shooting as a domestic altercation that escalated to lethal violence with a handgun, and they list the matter as a “solved” homicide, reflecting that an identified family member was arrested and charged. Memorial pages and a crowdfunding campaign created shortly after the killing portray Cole as a beloved fiancé and father; the fundraiser organized on behalf of his partner, Kellie Johnson, explains that his sudden death left her and his children in deep grief and financial hardship, and was set up to help cover funeral costs and support the family in the immediate aftermath of the homicide.
