‘What, you gonna shoot me?’: Father who mocked son for grabbing gun during eviction argument did not get to say anything else, police say

An Arizona man allegedly shot his father to death after his father tried “kicking him out” of an apartment where the 28-year-old was staying, with cops saying the man told a roommate he feared his dad was “going to beat my a—.”

“What, you gonna shoot me?” asked 50-year-old victim Joseph Elmer Peixotto after his son, Joseph Gabriel Peixotto, pulled a gun on him at the Acero North Valley apartments in Phoenix, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime.

A roommate who was also staying at the apartment and is listed as a witness in the affidavit told the Phoenix Police Department they heard two blasts after Joseph Elmer Peixotto asked his son about the gun and then found him on the floor suffering from gunshot wounds to his chest. The roommate then called 911…

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