Woman shot to death in Phoenix putting kids into car

PHOENIX — Police said a 35-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday morning while she was putting her children into a car.

Blanca Gutierrez-Calzoncit’s two children were unharmed, police said. Her ex-husband, Josiah English III, 40, the father of the children, was arrested that night on suspicion of murder.

Neighbors reported hearing several shots fired around 6 a.m. in the parking lot of an apartment complex near Cave Creek and Greenway roads.

Phoenix Fire Department personnel pronounced Gutierrez-Calzoncit dead at the scene.

The children stayed with fire department workers until relatives could be contacted.

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