Sherri Ficklin’s 24-year-old nephew was shot dead just after midnight Sunday — one of five fatal shootings the valley saw last weekend.
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“Matthew did what I would expect him to do,” said the mother of the man killed Monday during an armed robbery at a Lee’s Discount Liquor in the southwest valley, who may have saved his pregnant coworker with his silence. “I’m very proud and honored that my son protected her and her son.”
Matthew Christensen, 24, was killed after three black men in their 20s caught on tape demanded he open a safe. Christensen didn’t have access to it, but his pregnant manager in another part of the store, Jamie Henderson, did. And he kept quiet.
The Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier had his hands up when he was shot several times Monday night during an armed robbery, police said. Detectives are searching for the three armed men responsible, caught on tape.
In what a witness later called a “gunfight,” Trujillo-Soriano fired nine shots at officers, and the two officers a total of fired 34 rounds in return.