In the early morning hours of Friday, June 16, 2017, 24-year-old white male Mavrick Goodman was in the area of 2800 East Kathleen Road, a residential stretch in Phoenix, Arizona, when violence cut his night short. At 2:07 a.m., Phoenix police were dispatched there in response to a report of a shooting, converging on the quiet street under the glow of streetlights and emergency beacons. When officers arrived, they found Goodman suffering from a gunshot wound.
He was still alive when they reached him, and he was quickly transported to a hospital, but despite those efforts, he succumbed to his injuries not long afterward, and the case was classified as a homicide.
The scene on East Kathleen Road offered investigators only the barest outline of what had happened: a young man shot in the middle of the night, with few immediate clues about why he had been targeted or who had pulled the trigger. Official case materials do not describe a prior altercation or robbery, nor do they mention recovered weapons or other physical evidence in detail; what's recorded publicly is the stark sequence of events—call received, officers respond, victim located with a gunshot wound, transport to the hospital, and death. From the outset, detectives were left to piece together Goodman's final movements and any potential conflicts or encounters that might explain why he ended up bleeding on that stretch of roadway just after 2 a.m.
What the investigation did produce early on was a brief description of a possible assailant. The suspect was described only in general terms as a white male, about six feet tall and weighing roughly 200 pounds—no name, no age, no vehicle information, and no clear connection to Goodman made public. That sparse description, paired with the lack of publicly reported forensic breakthroughs, has meant that the case has lingered for years without a named suspect or any indication in open sources that someone has been arrested or charged. Goodman's homicide continues to appear on lists of unsolved Phoenix killings and cold cases, and Silent Witness materials still publicize the case, noting that a reward is available for information that leads to an arrest or indictment and urging anyone with knowledge of the shooting to come forward.
