Arizona cheerleader, 17, shot and killed while leaving house party
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Phoenix police say 17-year-old Desiree Rivas was leaving a house party when she was shot and killed early Sunday morning just after midnight Sunday, May 14.
Just after midnight, police arrived at the scene after reports of shots fired in the neighborhood, firefighters pronounced the Cesar Chavez High School student dead at the scene. "Our hearts are broken into a million pieces." Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
Neighbors recalled to FOX10 the loud gun shots and said that they noticed what looked like teenage boys running.
"I was in the bed and I heard these gun shots, and they were loud. It seems like they were right in my yard. They were so loud," said April Stokes. "I was scared to get up because I didn’t know where they were coming from, since they sounded so close."