Before she was shot, a neighbor later said, Josie had been arguing for a few minutes with a man while standing in the front yard. The gate at the end of the driveway was still closed.
An ambulance came and took the shot woman to Banner Mesa Hospital. She was later transferred to Banner s Phoenix hospital. But she checked herself out about a week and a half later, family members said, complaining of the care she received there. She was always sick after that, her mother said.
Josie was unemployed at the time and had recently moved in with her mother and brother in the home in Guadalupe, a small town tucked between Tempe and Phoenix populated mostly by Latinos and Yaqui natives. Their front yard is full of knick-knacks acquired over the years; when