Detectives are investigating circumstances leading to the shooting deaths of two men who were fighting Saturday morning near downtown Phoenix.  

Officers responded about 7:45 a.m. Aug. 30 to an area near 1000 North 22nd Place and found two men with gunshot wounds.

Malik Hopkins, 28, and Warren Middlebrooks, 37, were taken to a hospital, but they did not survive.

Detectives learned that Middlebrooks and Hopkins were fighting, and a handgun and knife were involved.

“Hopkins sustained both stab wounds and gunshot wounds whereas Middlebrooks sustained gunshot wounds. It is believed both men were fighting over the same handgun and had shot each other during the altercation,” a Phoenix Police Department release stated.