Eleazer Reeves was a very young child whose death has been recorded as a homicide in Phoenix, Arizona. Online homicide and cold-case listings describe him as Eleazer Reeves, a 1-year-old male whose race or ethnicity is listed as unknown, with his body found and his death recorded in Phoenix on April 30, 2015. The same listing classifies the manner of death as “death by force,” indicating that authorities consider his passing the result of a violent act rather than illness or accident. A linked news headline on that case summary refers to a “Richmond pastor” losing his son in an Arizona shooting, which ties his death to a shooting incident in the Phoenix area, although the full article text is not publicly accessible through the available links.
There is a small but important discrepancy in the public record about the exact date and place associated with Eleazer’s death. The homicide listing connected with Phoenix police records notes that he was both found and pronounced dead on April 30, 2015, in Phoenix. A separate obituary on a national obituary site states that Eleazer “passed away” on April 23, 2015, identifying him as a resident of Mechanicsville, Virginia, with funeral services held in early May at Monaghan Funeral Home and Cool Spring Baptist Church in Mechanicsville. Taken together, these sources suggest that Eleazer was part of a Virginia family with strong church ties, and that his death, investigated as a homicide in Phoenix, led to his burial and memorialization back home in Virginia, even though public records do not clearly reconcile the one-week difference between the reported dates.
Publicly available crime and cold-case aggregators repeatedly list Eleazer’s name among Phoenix-area homicide victims and cold cases, identifying the investigating agency as the Phoenix Police Department but offering no narrative description of what happened beyond the indication that he was murdered. None of the accessible online sources provide details about the exact location within Phoenix where the shooting occurred, who else was present, or the circumstances that led up to the violence. There are no open news reports, court records, or police press releases that name a suspect, describe an arrest, or indicate that anyone has been charged in connection with Eleazer Reeves’s killing. Based on the information that is publicly available, his death is still treated as an open homicide case, with no publicly identified suspects and no reported arrests, leaving his family and the wider community with unanswered questions about who was responsible and why such an extremely young child was caught up in lethal violence so far from the place where he was ultimately laid to rest.
