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Court papers detail shooting that hurt 4-year-old boy in Phoenix
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Newly released court documents provide new details in the arrest of a woman who’s accused of shooting a young boy in the face during a fight at a south Phoenix home earlier this week.
Phoenix police confirmed that 29-year-old Joanna Chalup Cortez turned herself in on Wednesday. Cortez is facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault and discharging a firearm at a residence, police said.
The boy, whose family identified as 4-year-old Qahsiem Sinclair, was rushed to the hospital and had emergency surgery. Family members told Arizona’s Family he is expected to be OK.
The shooting happened at the Somo Lofts near 32nd Street and Broadway Road shortly after 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Court documents indicate the situation began earlier in the day, as the child’s mother was reportedly with Cortez and another woman, described as an ex-girlfriend of Cortez’s current boyfriend. The suspect and the other woman began arguing, prompting Cortez to call her boyfriend and kick him out of her house.
Cortez and the other women then reportedly picked up her now-ex-boyfriend around 11 a.m. and drove them to the Somo Lofts, where his brother, girlfriend and young son, Qahsiem, live. Cortez and the other woman then drove away.
A short time later, documents say Cortez became angry about a livestream on social media involving her ex-boyfriend and his brother, Meishaq Sinclair, who is Qahsiem’s father. Investigators say Cortez drove back to the townhome, then began honking and demanding that someone come outside.
She reportedly texted threats to the child’s mother, then called her saying she was outside and going to “shoot up the house.”
Derek Staahl breaks down new details in the arresting documents.
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