In late January, Edgar Garcia drove to the South Phoenix home of Christian Diaz Rendon and unleashed hell.
On Jan. 26, Garcia, who is the son of Rendon’s landlord and has a history of mental illness, drove to the house to fight someone whom he believed was a part of a plot to murder him, according to court records. Surveillance video captured him firing both a shotgun and a pistol into the home, apparently hitting one of Rendon’s children in the process. As Rendon’s family members huddled upstairs and called 911, Garcia broke into the home from the backyard, ultimately engaging in a struggle with the 36-year-old Rendon near the front door.
Then a Phoenix police officer showed up and hurriedly shot Rendon — not Garcia, who had been subdued and disarmed — in the head, killing him…