Brandon Luján fought with his brother and killed his mother and father (PHOTOS)

• Brandon Luján was accused of killing his father, mother and brother.
• Luján was motivated by anger after a family fight.
• The defendant asked to speak with the doctors to confess his crime.

Brandon Luján was arrested in Arizona accused of the murder of his mother, father and brother after a family quarrel. The Phoenix Police Department (PPD) arrested Luján, 34, after the dramatic triple homicide that has rocked the community.

Agents from the PPD Homicide Division charged Brandon Luján for the death of his 56-year-old mother Irene Luján; his father Lewis Luján, 63 years old; and his brother Matthew Luján, 30, last Saturday night, August 7, 2021 at the family home in Phoenix, Arizona.

Brandon Luján is accused of killing his mother, father and brother

Brandon Luján is already sleeping in the prison Maricopa County accused of all three homicides and, as of this writing, it is not detailed when he will have his first hearing, in one of the most heartbreaking cases in Arizona’s criminal annals, as the defendant acted blinded by anger and totally befuddled .

According to the case documents, consulted by MundoHispánico, Brandon Luján and his brother Matthew Luján began to fight for some reason that is not recorded in the investigations. The two brothers started yelling at each other, then one pushed the other, and then they hit each other.

The petty fight that ended in a triple homicide

Brandon Luján told the PPD Homicide Division agents that he was with his brother in one of the rooms of the house when Mathew Luján punched him several times in the face, stumbled, and when he fell he felt his ankle twist due to the weight of his own body as he goes to the ground.

That infuriated him in an exaggerated way and he took the pistol from his waist, unhooked the safety and shot his brother, who fell to the ground from the bullets. Then on the ground Brandon Luján shot his brother again several times, although he does not remember precisely how many shots he gave him.

The father tries to restrain his son armed with a gun

Hearing the shots in one of the rooms, Patriarch Lewis Luján ran upstairs to see what was happening with his two sons. Upon entering the room, the father saw his son Brandon Luján with a gun in his hand and Matthew Luján wounded and lying on the floor. The father tried to restrain his son armed with the gun and jumped on him.

At that moment his mother Irene Luján also entered the room, who forced herself together with her husband Lewis Luján to try to restrain their son Brandon, who then raised the weapon against his parents and, to prevent them from holding him, also Shooting. It all happened in a matter of seconds and shortly before 11:30 at night.

Brandon Luján did not ask for help for the injured

Brandon Luján acknowledged in his interview with the PPD Homicide Division agents that he was aware of what he had done. The man agreed not to have intentionally called the emergency number to ask for help for his seriously injured mother, father and brother, who slowly died.

After the shooting in which Brandon Luján killed his family, he does not have clear memories of what happened, according to his testimony before the agents of the PPD Homicide Division. Vaguely, the man said he thinks he loaded the gun again, changed his clothes, and waited for dawn.

The alleged murderer confesses everything to some doctors

On Sunday, August 8, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., Brandon Luján left his home and drove in the family car to a nearby hospital and told the emergency room doctors that he had shot himself dead. To his family. The dismayed doctors called for the presence of the PPD patrols assigned to the hospital.

The PPD patrols who heard the dramatic story that Brandon Luján told them, then radioed for some patrols to go to the family home, very near the corner of 32nd Street and Thomas Road, northeast of the metropolitan area of Phoenix, to find out if the man was telling the truth.

The authorities find the bodies

Upon reaching the house that Brandon Luján told them, the PPD agents found the door closed and forced her to enter the room where the man told them that the bodies of his mother Irene Luján, his father Lewis Luján and his brother Matthew Luján, killed by shots from a .9-millimeter caliber pistol.

The agents confirmed to their PPD colleagues who were with Brandon Luján that the almost implausible story he had just told them was true and that they should arrest the man for his alleged responsibility in the murder of his mother, father and brother. Then, they requested the presence of agents from the Corporation’s Homicide Division.

Brandon Luján confesses all the details of the crime

After the Homicide Division agents learned of the crime report, they requested that Brandon Luján be transferred to the PPD headquarters in downtown Phoenix. It was during that interrogation on Sunday afternoon that the man revealed all the details of the unusual crime against his family.

After questioning, Brandon Luján was charged by PPD Homicide Division agents with three counts of first degree murder for the murder of his mother Irene Luján, his father Lewis Luján and his brother Matthew Luján. In the records of the chaos it is detailed that there are two other children of the couple and that they no longer lived in the family home.

Matthew Luján and Brandon Luján could not reach an agreement

In his testimony, Brandon Luján stated that he had time with several differences with his brother Matthew Luján and that on the night of the incident both had argued in a heated way before the fight began. It was then that the patriarch ordered them to solve the problem in a civilized way by speaking, but they began to fight.

As of this writing, Brandon Luján still has no date for what will be his first hearing before a judge, in one of the most dramatic cases in Arizona crime history. Although the man is already in custody and confessed to the crime, agents from the PPD Homicide Division are still investigating the triple homicide.

Irene Luján and Lewis Luján, together even in death

Lewis Luján and Irene Luján had been married for 35 years and together they had four children, three boys and a girl. The patriarch of the family made his living as a plumber and last year he managed to overcome cancer, after treatment, which afflicted him for a couple of years.

Kyle Irwin, nephew of Lewis Luján, spoke to the media in Phoenix, Arizona and said that his entire family has been shocked, as they did not expect such a radical reaction from his cousin Brandon Luján, after a fight with his brother . Irene Luján, while her husband was ill, was the one who took charge of the family finances.

The Firearm Deaths Pandemic

The shooting murder of the three members of the Luján family is one more link in the violence with firearms. The non-profit organization National Archive of Gun Violence, which fights to raise awareness about the dangers of free sale of firearms, reports that 26,201 people have died so far this year

As of Tuesday, August 3, 2o21 of those people who have been shot dead in the United States, a total of 12,011 were murdered and 14,190 committed suicide. 24,034 were injured. The country already experienced 409 mass shootings in the first half of the year, in which at least four people died in the same event.

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