Man charged in fatal shooting of Tucson man in December Police have arrested 39-year-old Richard Junior Miller in the fatal shooting of 55-year-old Jeffry Ray Hunter in December 2020. (Source: TPD) By KOLD News 13 Staff | December 23, 2020 at 3:25 PM MST - Updated January 7 at 5:33 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Tucson Police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a Tucson man back in December 2020.
Investigators developed information identifying the homicide suspect as 39-year-old Richard Junior Miller. A warrant was obtained for his arrest on Jan. 5.
Officers were able to locate him near Stone Avenue and Fort Lowell. He was booked into Pima County Jail and was charged with second-degree murder.
Former Phoenix Councilman Calvin C. Goode speaking on a city show in 2013.
As Phoenix’s second African American councilmember, Calvin C. Goode was elected 11 consecutive times. He served a record 22 years before retiring. Goode died Wednesday at the age of 93. Through a city spokesperson, the Goode family said Calvin C. Goode passed at 3:25 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2020, at Banner University Medical Center from a non-COVID related illness. Memorial services are pending. The family requests privacy during this time.
Early Years In Arizona
When Calvin C. Goode arrived in Arizona he couldn’t have known he would make Phoenix history. After all, he was just 10 months old when his family left Oklahoma to work the cotton fields near Gila Bend. At that time, African Americans could only attend school through the eighth grade there. So Goode moved to Prescott for high school and finished his last year in Phoenix at a segregated school. Originally called Phoenix Union Colored High School, it
Goode was the second Black American to serve as Phoenix’s city councilman, for a record 22 consecutive years.
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The Oklahoma native was initially denied the high school experience in Arizona due to his race. He earned a Master’s degree from Arizona State University and worked 30 years for the Phoenix Union High School District. He also owned his own tax-accounting business.
Goode was dubbed the “conscience” of the Phoenix City Council because his efforts addressed disadvantaged youth, empowering minority-owned businesses, fighting discrimination and improving impoverished areas of the community.
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Pima County, which reported 1,313 new cases today, has seen 63,472 of the state’s 480,319 confirmed cases. A total of 8,294 Arizonans have died after contracting COVID-19, including 962 deaths in Pima County, according to the Dec. 24 report. The number of hospitalized COVID cases statewide continues to soar as the virus has begun to spread more rapidly, putting stress on Arizona’s hospitals and surpassing July peaks. ADHS reported that as of Dec. 23, a record 4,221 COVID patients were hospitalized in the state. The summer peak of 3,517 hospitalized COVID patients was set on July 13; that number hit a subsequent low of 468 on Sept. 27. A total of 1,965 people visited emergency rooms on Dec. 23 with COVID symptoms. That number, which hit a new record of 2,166 earlier this month, had previously peaked at 2,008 on July 7; it hit a subsequent low of 653 on Sept. 28.