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Police identify woman shot, killed at Mesa home

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Posted Monday, March 2, 2026 6:17 am

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Maria Lewis, 32, has been identified as the woman who was shot and killed early Saturday morning at a Mesa home.

Officers responded to a welfare check Feb. 28 at the home near East Kinetic Drive and South Reliance Way where they found Lewis with a gunshot wound.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mesa Police Department detectives are investigating.

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