PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An Arizona man at the center of a high-profile case for his young daughter’s death in a hot car last summer died in Phoenix on Wednesday morning, authorities confirmed.
Christopher Ryan Scholtes, 38, was found dead around 5 a.m. in a home near 7th Street and Northern Avenue. Phoenix police are investigating his death as a suicide.
Scholtes, who was accused of leaving his 2-year-old daughter in a hot car outside a Marana home last year, accepted a deal last month where he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse…