Tolleson · Arizona

Murders in Tolleson, Arizona

Explore named victims, cold-case appeals and reported court history in Tolleson and nearby source-labeled areas. Each record links to supporting material and explains whether its date marks an attack or a body discovery.

6documented victim records
0mapped locations
6years represented
Coverage note: These 6 victim records are an initial collection, not an official city homicide total. Four records are reported in Tolleson; two Southern Avenue discovery records use a Tolleson-area label with municipal boundaries unverified. Discovery dates do not establish when or where a killing occurred.
Research guide

Tolleson city cases and nearby reported locations

This collection spans 2005–2026. It connects David Estrada’s case to the Arizona Supreme Court’s Hausner opinion, Sabino Lopez’s killing to the Attorney General’s cold-case appeal, and Yessenia Norman’s discovery to a dated arrest and extradition report.

Geography needs particular care here. A Tolleson mailing address or news headline does not establish a location inside city limits. Salvatore Barone and Sabrina Rollins are included as explicitly labeled Tolleson-area discovery records along Southern Avenue. Their records preserve the source’s place label without treating them as confirmed city incidents.

Dates and legal status also differ. Lopez’s official source gives June 9, 2018. Rollins’s older Silent Witness appeal is supplemented by a 2020 arrest report. An arrest does not establish guilt, and a discovery date does not establish a date of death.

Sabino Lopez cold-case record · Sabrina Rollins source history · David Estrada court source

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Search by victim, year, street or incident type. Discovery dates are labeled. Written locations are supported by reporting; exact map coordinates have not been verified.

6 records shown
2026-01-28 · Discovery date

Yessenia Norman, 18

Stabbing
Tolleson apartment complex; exact scene not mapped
Norman was found dead at a Tolleson apartment after being reported missing. The date here is the discovery date, not a confirmed date of death. FOX 10 reported in February 2026 that Randal Santillan had been arrested in Mississippi, extradited to Arizona and accused of first-degree murder and kidnapping.

Arrest and extradition reported February 2026; charges are allegations, not a conviction.

FOX 10 Phoenix source ↗
2023-08-27 · Incident date

Jimmy Davis Sr., 53

Shooting
Near 94th Avenue and Van Buren Street, Tolleson
Davis was found fatally shot in a driveway early Sunday morning. Arizona’s Family reported that Tolleson police arrested Bryan Ray Lecates on August 30, 2023, and booked him on suspicion of second-degree murder and other offenses. The report identifies Davis as the father of a city councilmember and says the shooting was unrelated to that role.

Arrest reported August 2023; no final court outcome established by the reviewed sources.

Arizona’s Family source ↗ Arizona’s Family source ↗
2020-05-17 · Discovery date

Salvatore Barone, 26

Shooting
117th Avenue and Southern Avenue; Tolleson-area discovery location
Silent Witness identifies Salvatore “Sal” Barone as the man found dead with gunshot wounds near this intersection around 2 a.m. The appeal lists an unknown suspect and seeks information. Its Tolleson place label is retained as a reported area; this record does not establish that the discovery site or killing was within municipal boundaries.

Public information appeal; Silent Witness case 2020-3303 lists an unknown suspect.

Silent Witness source ↗
2018-06-09 · Incident date

Sabino Lopez, 21

Shooting
91st Avenue and West Garfield Street, Tolleson
Tolleson officers found Lopez with a gunshot wound in the street; he later died at a hospital. The Arizona Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit says he had been walking when three men in a silver SUV confronted him. The official source gives June 9, 2018, which is the date used here.

Arizona Attorney General Cold Case Unit requests information.

Arizona Attorney General source ↗
2016-11-09 · Discovery date

Sabrina Rollins, 39

Shooting
107th Avenue and Southern Avenue; Tolleson-area discovery location (MCSO investigation)
Rollins was found dead near this intersection. Silent Witness labels the location Tolleson; reporting identifies MCSO as the investigating agency. FOX 10 reported in April 2020 that DNA analysis led to Tony Tyrone Reed’s arrest. That later report updates the older flyer’s unknown-suspect entry. This is a reported-area discovery record, not a verified municipal killing location.

Arrest reported April 24, 2020; no final court outcome established by the reviewed sources.

Silent Witness source ↗ FOX 10 Phoenix source ↗
2005-06-29 · Incident date

David Estrada, 20

Shooting
Tolleson; exact scene not mapped
Estrada was fatally shot in Tolleson during the series of attacks associated with Dale Hausner. Contemporary reporting supplies his age, date and city. The Arizona Supreme Court’s 2012 opinion includes Estrada among the murder victims and affirms Hausner’s murder convictions and sentences.

Murder conviction documented in State v. Hausner (Arizona Supreme Court, 2012).

Arizona Daily Star source ↗ Arizona Supreme Court source ↗
Tolleson murders by year

Tolleson homicide cases by year

Browse the years represented in the current directory. These are counts of records documented on this site, not official annual Tolleson homicide totals.

20261 record
20231 record
20201 record
20181 record
20161 record
20051 record
Case histories

Cold-case appeals and dated legal updates

Lopez and Barone have public information appeals. The Norman, Davis and Rollins records describe arrests as reported on their source dates. Estrada’s record links to a court opinion affirming murder convictions. These categories should not be combined into a single solved or unsolved count.

How this directory is built

About the Tolleson homicide data

Sources include the Arizona Attorney General, Arizona Supreme Court, Silent Witness and established local reporting. Identity, date basis and location are checked separately. Source-labeled nearby areas remain visibly distinguished from city reports; no geographic coordinates are guessed. Older legal reports are dated and do not imply that no subsequent development occurred.

Is this a complete list of murders in Tolleson?

No. These 6 victim records are an initial researched collection, not an official total or a complete historical census.

Are the map pins exact crime-scene locations?

No map pins have been assigned yet. Each record gives the location described in the source, but precise scene coordinates have not been verified.

What is the difference between homicide and murder?

Homicide means one person caused another person’s death. Murder is a criminal legal classification. Case cards preserve distinctions such as homicide investigation, murder charge, conviction, unsolved case and murder-suicide rather than treating them as interchangeable.

Where do the Tolleson case sources come from?

Each record links to its source material: official cold-case appeals, a published court opinion or local news reporting. An older appeal may be supplemented with a later arrest report.

Are all six records inside Tolleson city limits?

No. Four are reported in Tolleson; Barone and Rollins are labeled as nearby Tolleson-area discoveries. Their municipal boundaries and original killing locations are not established here.

Does the date shown always mean the date of the killing?

No. Norman, Barone and Rollins use body-discovery dates. Each record labels its date basis so a discovery is not mistaken for the time of death.

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