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Brett Berholtz

Case from Phoenix, AZ dated Jan 16, 2016

Victim Details

Brett Berholtz

March 28, 2022

Male

Unknown

Phoenix

AZ

2016-01-16

2016-01-16

23

Brett

Berholtz

yes

07/19/2026


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Brett Berholtz, a 23-year-old male of unknown race/ethnicity, was fatally shot on the night of January 16, 2016, in the parking lot of the Terrace Park apartments in west Phoenix, near 81st–83rd Avenue and Indian School Road. Police and media reports describe how officers were called to the complex around 10:30 p.m. and found two people in their twenties who had been shot: Berholtz and a 22-year-old woman. Both were rushed to the hospital, where Berholtz died of his injuries while the woman wa ...
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