Two years after having been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a 10-year-old girl, the man accused of her murder was taken into intensive care due to a fight at the Lower Buckeye Jail in Phoenix, according to a statement from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
Josh Gonzalez, 22, remains in the ICU after he got into an “altercation” with another inmate on March 27, the statement said on Sunday.
The statement read that MCSO jail crime detectives were investigating the incident.
It was April 3, 2019, when a driver in a white truck shot at Summer Bell Brown and her family while they parked their car in their driveway. Summer and her father had been shot and taken to a hospital, where Summer later died.
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Man accused of killing girl in 2019 Phoenix road rage shooting now in ICU
By FOX 10 Staff
PHOENIX - The Maricopa County Sheriff s Office has confirmed that a man suspected of killing a 10-year-old girl in a 2019 road rage case is now in the ICU.
Deputuies said Joshua Gonzalez was in a fight with another inmate at the Lower Buckeye Jail on March 27. He had to be hospitalized due to his injuries.
Gonzalez is accused of fatally shooting Summer Bell Brown back in 2019 after a traffic dispute with the girl s father.
He has denied being the shooter, although investigators say the evidence they found weighs heavily against him.