Police search for suspect after 62-year-old man shot in Maryvale

PHOENIX (AZFamily) – Police continue to search for a suspect after a man was found shot to death in a Maryvale home earlier this week.

Phoenix police have now identified the victim as 62-year-old Jose Perez Olvera.

Just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, officers responded to reports of a shooting at a home on West Holly Street, near 51st Avenue and McDowell Road. Olvera was found with at least one gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to witnesses, the suspect is someone Olvera knew who fled the scene before police arrived. Police are now searching for that man but have not yet released his name.

The homicide squad is still investigating what led to the shooting.

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