Influencer killed when a gunman fires randomly during argument on Arizona road

On Friday, an online content creator was killed in Arizona when a shooter fired in a random direction during a dispute between the drivers of two other vehicles, the Glendale police said.

Yarely Ashley Hermosillo, 27, who described himself as a creator in online reel and has 144,000 subscribers on Instagram, was not the target of gunshots around 11:45 p.m., police announced.

She was a passenger in a vehicle and was struck after a driver “fired a shot in a random direction” after people of two cars exchanged words on the road to Camelback in the eastern direction, the police said.

Jesus Preciado Dousten, 33, was arrested on Saturday and is accused of second degree murder, serious assault, fault involving weapons and endangering.

The police said in an affidavit that Dousten, driving a GMC pick-up, had released a black handgun, “said a game?” in Spanish during the argument and licensed.

Hermosillo was shot in the right eye, the police wrote in the document. She was declared dead at 1 a.m. on Saturday, police announced.

Witnesses said Dousten obviously seemed to be poisoned, police said in the report.

Family members recalled in tears the pain of losing a loved one who was shot in front of them.

“I will never forget my mother’s cries when I arrived at the hospital,” said Sister Cryshan Lopez at a press conference on Wednesday.

Hermosillo was the mother of a 3 -year -old son, and his career on social networks, who involved cooking, began to take off, said his family.

“She was full of dreams, plans and objectives for her future – which were all removed in such a cruel and insane way,” said Lopez. “Our family has a broken heart beyond words.”

Dousten has what the police described in a report as extended criminal history, including a road rage in Phoenix in June in which he was accused of having struck another driver in the face.

He held convictions in 2016 and 2024 for attempting to theft of means of transport, a conviction in 2022 of illegal flights to the application of laws and a conviction in 2022 to resist the arrest and criminal intrusion, according to legal documents.

He was detained instead of a million dollars’ deposit, police said. Online judicial files did not list the prosecutor on Wednesday evening.

The police said that nothing had happened in the argument between the drivers was itself a criminal and that it was “a brief verbal exchange”.

“Why the suspect chose to dismiss the weapon remains unknown,” said police spokesperson Jose Miguel Santiago.