Mom kills her two kids in gruesome murder-suicide after shooting woman with her husband at a bar

Nypost · May 26, 2026 · 493 words · By Anthony Blair

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Add The New York Post on GoogleA crazed Arizona mom gunned down her two children in a shocking murder-suicide after earlier shooting a woman who’d been with her husband at a bar, according to cops.

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Andrea Clarice Davis, 38, drove to Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill in Glendale just after midnight Monday and shot at her husband of 12 years, Nolan Davis, 39, and a 36-year-old woman he was with outside, police told AZFamily.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Neither department had prior involvement with the couple, who had no history of domestic violence”

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The provided evidence confirms the events of the crime but does not mention the couple's prior history of domestic violence or lack thereof.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Phoenix Fan Fusion (formerly Phoenix Comicon and Phoenix Comic Fest) is a speculative fiction entertainment and comic book convention held annually in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded as the Phoenix C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Fan_Fusion

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Claim 2: “The second woman was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to survive.”

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The provided evidence confirms a woman was shot, but does not explicitly state her medical status or that her injuries were non-life-threatening.

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago ... Two children and their mother are dead in what police believe was a murder-suicide following an initial shooting outside of a sports bar in ...
https://www.wafb.com/2026/05/26/mother-found-dead-with-2-chi…

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago ... Two children and their mother are dead after a horrible chain of events overnight in the West Valley.
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/25/mother-kills-2-children-…

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago ... Brandy Scheffler this area is not, I lived on the 35th ave t bird for 14 years.. I don't have any issues here.. 17h · 3 likes.
https://www.facebook.com/ABC15/posts/a-woman-was-shot-near-3…

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Claim 3: “There cops found the bodies of the mom and her kids: Austin, 10, and 18-month-old Andolan.”

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Multiple sources confirm that police found the bodies of the mother and her two children in a Phoenix home.

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · Two children and their mother are dead in what police believe was a murder-suicide following an initial shooting outside of a sports bar in ...
https://www.live5news.com/2026/05/26/mother-found-dead-with-…

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · A woman and her two children were found dead inside a Phoenix home in an apparent murder-suicide early Monday, after the woman fired shots ...
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/posts/a-woman-and-her-two-c…

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web search NEUTRAL — Andrea Clarice Davis, 38, allegedly opened fire at her husband and another woman outside a Glendale bar before driving back to the family home where her two ...
https://www.facebook.com/61585155731989/posts/im-going-to-hu…

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Claim 4: “Andrea Clarice Davis, 38, drove to Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill in Glendale just after midnight Monday and shot at her husband of 12 years, Nolan Davis, 39, and a 36-year-old woman he was with outside”

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Multiple independent news sources (AZ Family, and other web search results) confirm that Andrea Davis shot at her husband Nolan Davis and another woman outside a bar in Glendale.

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Claim 5: “Andrea Davis then drove home and texted her husband to say she was going to hurt their two young children — sending him a horrific image of one of them bleeding from the head”

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Multiple sources confirm that Andrea Davis texted her husband saying she would harm the children and sent a photo of a child bleeding.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British and American filmmaker. As a significant auteur of his generation, he has established himself a major figure of 21st-century Hollywood. Hi…
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Claim 6: “The other woman, who has not been identified, was shot in the back of the head as she got in her car to flee”

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While multiple sources confirm a woman was shot at the bar, the specific detail about being 'shot in the back of the head as she got in her car to flee' is not explicitly detailed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though the general event is corroborated.

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Claim 7: “The bar shooting is being investigated by Glendale police, and the murder-suicide by Phoenix police.”

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Two independent sources explicitly state that Glendale police are investigating the bar shooting and Phoenix police are investigating the murder-suicide.

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web search NEUTRAL — The dad told the cops with him at the scene of the bar shooting, who scrambled officers to the couple’s home in Phoenix, about two miles away from the bar.Bowers said. The bar shooting is being invest…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/us-news/mom-kills-her-two-kids…

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web search NEUTRAL — Phoenix police are taking over the murder-suicide investigation at the home, while Glendale police are investigating the bar shooting.
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/25/mother-kills-2-children-…

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web search NEUTRAL — A quiet Phoenix neighborhood is reeling after a mother and her two young children were found dead inside a home Monday.
https://www.fox19.com/2026/05/26/mother-found-dead-with-2-ch…

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