MCSO searching for murder suspect

PHOENIX — Detectives with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a shooting suspect.

Joseph Gonzales, 22, is suspected of shooting 24-year-old Jordan Nava outside a Best Western hotel in Youngtown around 4 p.m. Saturday.

When deputies arrived at the hotel, they found Nava suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Investigators say Gonzales was last seen leaving the hotel parking lot in a grayish/silver sedan built in the 1990s. He is 6 feet tall and weighs 160 pounds.

Detectives said he should be considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call the MCSO at (602) 876-1011.