On October 9, 2015, Steven Edward Jones, an 18-year-old freshman at Northern Arizona University, shot four people, killing Colin Charles Brough and severely injuring three others, in a parking lot outside of Mountain View Hall on the Flagstaff Mountain campus in Flagstaff, Arizona.
[4] At approximately 1:20 am on the morning of October 9, 2015, in a parking lot near Mountain View Hall on the Flagstaff Mountain campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, 18-year-old freshman Steven Jones shot four 20-year-old juniors with a .40-caliber Glock 22, killing Colin Brough and severely injuring Nicholas Piring, Nicholas Prato, and Kyle Zientek.
[7] Steven Edward Jones (born 1996 or 1997) was raised in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.
[10] Jones' trial began on April 5, 2017, at the Coconino County Superior Courthouse in Flagstaff, Arizona.
[15] In December 2017, prosecutors agreed to reduce the charge to second-degree murder, in part to avoid the possibility of double jeopardy, which was an argument made by the defendant to dismiss the first degree murder charges, based upon comments made by some jury members to the judge after the first trial.
[17] Nicholas Acevedo, one of the 38 witnesses in the original trial, died of suicide on March 4, 2018,[18] prior to the retrial's scheduled date.