Reynel Bautista-Madrigal, a 28-year-old Hispanic / Latino male from Phoenix, Arizona, died on May 31, 2011 after an encounter with police that ended in a fatal shooting. According to the case summary maintained by Crime Solvers Central, officers were dispatched that day in response to a call about a “suspicious person.” When they arrived, they engaged with Bautista-Madrigal, and the interaction escalated until officers opened fire, resulting in his death. The site’s record indicates that his body was found the same day in Phoenix and categorizes the case under “Death by Force,” emphasizing that the fatal outcome was directly tied to the use of law enforcement force during the call for service.
Online, his case is catalogued in Arizona-focused homicide and victim databases that aggregate information from law enforcement and public records; those entries reiterate his name, location, and cause of death but add little further narrative detail. Crime Solvers Central notes that the circumstances are “tied to a law enforcement encounter” and that the shooting followed officers’ response to the suspicious-person report, but it does not publicly spell out the precise sequence of events, what specific actions were alleged in the moments before shots were fired, or the exact location within Phoenix where the confrontation occurred. While the case is grouped with homicide and “death by force” records on a site dedicated to missing persons and murder cases in Arizona, it is presented more as an officer-involved shooting than as a typical unsolved stranger-on-stranger homicide.
The available online material does not identify any individual officer by name, list a formal criminal suspect, or describe arrests connected to Bautista-Madrigal’s death. Crime Solvers Central explicitly shows no external “Links to Additional Sources” on his case page, underscoring that there is no easily accessible public archive of detailed police reports, press releases, or court records tied to the incident. In forum posts attached to the same case entry, commenters discuss the shooting in the context of broader debates about police use of force and community–police relations in Phoenix, questioning whether different tactics or de-escalation could have been used and what impact such incidents have on public trust. Across these discussions and summaries, Bautista-Madrigal is consistently treated as the victim of lethal force during a police response, and there is no indication in the public online record that any officer or other individual has been arrested or criminally charged as a suspect in connection with his death.
