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The sixteenth birthday party for a Phoenix teen turned out to be more bloody than sweet when someone shot her in the leg early Sunday morning, reports azfamily.com.

Phoenix police officers were called to the home at around midnight after receiving reports that shots had been fired in a Phoenix backyard. The teenage girl had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. No one else was reported injured.

Officers arrived to find guests fleeing the home and detained a 1997 Pontiac and its passengers as it sped from the area. Although police questioned six "investigative leads," they were later released when officers could not determine if the weapon found in the car was related to the shooting, according to azfamily.com.

Facebook has been accused of a lot of stuff, including causing 20 percent of marriages to fail. In the case of Mesa woman Brenda S. Batista, the social networking site is being blamed for her knife-wielding attack on her husband.

Batista allegedly stabbed her husband in the arm for friending women on Facebook and using online dating services, reports The Arizona Republic.

Mesa police arrested Batista last Tuesday. She reportedly didn't put up a fight when police arrived at her home, allegedly telling officers: "Take me to jail, I stabbed him."

Chandler woman Pamela Haas has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after she allegedly stabbed her husband with a sword during an argument, reports ABC15 News.

Haas maintains that she only stabbed her husband, Louis, to protect herself. Pamela reportedly told police that her husband had punched her several times in the head and stomach before she grabbed the mounted sword. She then stabbed him in the arm.

‘Tis getting to be the season to be merry. Well, unless you are stuck in traffic and the jerk in the Mercedes just cut you off.

With the holidays approaching, there will likely be more traffic on the road and more stress from holiday festivities. Drivers should be cautious about the potential damage holiday road rage can bring. As the recent shooting of a man by a Scottsdale criminal attorney reveals, it could lead to deadly actions.

David Appleton may make his career defending suspects as a criminal attorney, but he may not be able to defend himself after authorities arrested him for second degree murder. Authorities say Appleton shot 50-year-old Paul Pearson in a road-rage driven shooting, reports the ABA Journal.

Usually, if someone commits an assault, images of the person hitting, striking or kicking another usually comes to mind. Martin Soto, on the other hand, wasn't arrested on an assault charge for a violent act; instead, police took him into custody on Friday for the sometimes innocuous act of licking, reports The Arizona Republic.

The 43-year-old is accused of licking a stranger's knee after she tripped and fell down a step. He then reportedly tried to hug her and lick her face, according to Chandler police. The victim was able to flee from Soto's not-so-loving embraces, and called the police.

When Benjamin Franklin compared life to "a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events," he probably didn't have a bloody double stabbing in mind as an example of an ill chess event.

Unfortunately, a checkmate turned into two mates getting checked by a sore loser after a competitive chess game at a Chuy's Restaurant ended with the two men getting stabbed, reports azfamily.com.

According to police, the normally civil game of strategy, pawns and kings began calmly enough at the northern Phoenix location of a Chuy's Restaurant. The situation started to get heated, however, when two of the three men involved placed wagers on the game.

Shooting suspect Juan Gabriel Ramirez is facing aggravated assault charges after he shot a family friend twice in the legs late Tuesday evening, reports azfamily.com.

The 29-year-old is already wanted for an outstanding felony warrant for a parole violation. The possible aggravated assault charges will add another violation to his already spotty record.

The crime of aggravated assault in Arizona is defined broadly, but often involves a person committing assault with the use of a deadly weapon or causes serious physical injury to another.

Tolleson police responded to calls about a gunshot earlier this week near 94th Avenue and Van Buren Street. Officers were eventually able to identify and arrest the suspected shooter, but it appears as if the discharge of the firearm in this case could have been an accident.

The suspect in this case is 18-year-old Robert Tafoya, who reportedly dropped his shotgun and tried to run away from the scene after the June 6 shooting incident, reports The Arizona Republic. The victim in this case was a friend of Tafoya and was reported to be in stable condition after he underwent surgery for the gunshot wound.

A man proved that staying locked up behind bars is easy to do when the right kind of action is taken. Reuters reported that 26-year-old Alexandro Guerrero was about to be released from a Pinal County jail on April 17, but later decided that he would like to stay in the detention center for his own safety because he feared that he would be killed by a Mexican drug cartel.

Guerrero reportedly told officers that he had sold drugs in Yuma and that he believed drug traffickers planned to kill him upon his release from custody. So, Guerrero decided to throw a punch at a detention officer when he was waiting in the booking area to be released.

A man, apparently angry about an incident that involved the sale of illegal drugs, is now facing some legal trouble after allegedly firing bullets at a Delta Chi fraternity house. Yet the suspect Oronde K. Lowery didn't act alone in this case and as of Friday, as ABC News reported that authorities were still searching for somebody else who was allegedly involved in the drive-by shooting.

Last week, Lowery was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault. The crime of aggravated assault in Arizona is defined broadly, but often involves a person committing the crime of assault while using a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.