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PEORIA, AZ (AZFamily) — A man is accused of shooting and killing his cousin inside a Peoria home early Thursday morning.
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Just before 9:30 a.m., Peoria police officers were called to a reported shooting at a home on Clara Lane near 91st Avenue and Beardsley Road.
When officers arrived, several people were outside the home, and 23-year-old Nickolas Izaiha Benson walked out holding a gun, police said. Officers said Benson held a gun to his head until he was hit with a less-lethal beanbag and taken into custody.
Police then went inside the home and found 22-year-old Justice Parton lying on a bed with a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators said multiple people told police Benson video-called them after the shooting, showed Parton’s body and threatened to kill himself. According to those accounts, Benson also said Parton told him to kill her.
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Police said Benson told officers he didn’t know what happened, and they reported smelling alcohol on him.
Benson was arrested for first-degree murder, manslaughter and multiple weapons-related charges. He was booked into the Maricopa County Jail, where his bond was set at $1 million.
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