On August 23, 1998, Dianne Ousley was killed by gunfire in Arizona, a death that appears in both gun-violence memorials and state domestic-violence fatality records. Public online databases describe Dianne Ousley, a 40-year-old female from Holbrook, Arizona, whose race or ethnicity is not specified in the available documentation, as having been “lost to gun violence” on that date. These records fix the date of death as 1998-08-23 and associate her with Holbrook as her city of residence at the time.
Her case is cataloged in a 1998 report on Arizona domestic-violence–related deaths, compiled for the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In that statewide listing, she appears as entry number 45: “Dianne Ousley,” with the date of death given as August 23, her age recorded as 40, and a note that she had three children. The report classifies the cause of death as “gun shot” and associates the incident with both “Salt River Pima Res./Scottsdale” and “Holbrook,” indicating that her life circumstances and the fatal event spanned these locations in Arizona. A remembrance page created by an intimate-partner-violence advocacy blog adds that her murder left three children to grow up without their mother, underlining the personal and familial impact beyond the bare statistical entry in the state report.
The same remembrance source states explicitly that Dianne was “shot and murdered by her boyfriend, who then committed suicide.” This description aligns with the notation in the Arizona domestic-violence fatality table, where the relationship of the accused to the victim is listed as “Boyfriend*,” and a footnote explains that the asterisk denotes an offender who also committed suicide. Taken together, these online documents depict the incident as an intimate-partner murder-suicide: an act of lethal domestic violence in which the boyfriend used a firearm to kill her and then ended his own life shortly thereafter.
Because the identified perpetrator died by suicide, available online records do not show any subsequent arrest, prosecution, or trial in connection with Dianne Ousley's killing. The domestic-violence fatality report treats the case as resolved in the sense that the offender is known and deceased, while memorial and case-summary sites simply record her as a victim of gun violence and do not list any outstanding suspects or ongoing criminal proceedings. Later discussions of violence in Holbrook, including coverage of an unrelated courthouse shooting many years afterward, mention other incidents in the area but make no suggestion that they are connected to her case or that any additional suspect was ever sought for her death.
