(First InMaricopa) A new police document released today tells us more about the attempted murder of a woman who was shot in the face in Rancho Mirage last week. She is alive, but remains in critical condition, according to the authorities. 

A probable cause statement by Maricopa Police Department officers better paints the picture of what happened on Montserrat Street Friday night — who was shot and why. 

Here are four new things we learned about the shooting: 

1. Neighbors detained the suspect 

At 6:35 p.m., officers were dispatched to shots fired on the 37000 block of Montserrat Street in a newly developed area of Rancho Mirage. 

Before the officers arrived, two neighbors reported seeing Thomas Ray Crew, 46, exit the home wherein gunshots had rung out minutes earlier. Crew reportedly dropped his pistol in the street as the neighbors held him at gunpoint until the police arrived. 

InMaricopa reporters on the scene that night captured photographs of the Glock handgun lying in the street with an evidence marker placed next to it. 

The neighbors reported that Crew said something like, “I just shot her, she is probably dead,” and “If you have handcuffs, just cuff me.” 

Responding officers were the ones to ultimately place him in handcuffs. 

2. It started as a kidnapping 

An argument between Crew and his siblings over the guardianship of their mother, the topic of a recent court ruling, reportedly escalated into the near-fatal shooting. 

Crew’s sister, who owns the home where the shooting occurred, told officers that she and her young daughter were at their home following the court hearing. That’s when Crew called her and threatened to kill her, according to the new police document. 

She reported Crew showed up at her home and held her and her daughter at gunpoint for two hours, stole their phones and threatened to “blow her brains out” if she tried to leave. 

At some point, Crew’s niece tried to escape, but he wrestled her back into a bedroom, according to the police document.

3. His sister-in-law was shot in the face 

The two hostages escaped through a window when Crew’s brother and sister-in-law arrived at the home, said police. 

The sister reported hearing Crew say, “What did you think was going to come from this?” before she heard a gunshot. Crew and his brother began yelling. 

The brother said he was standing next to his wife when Crew shot past his head twice.  

Police officers confirmed what neighbors told InMaricopa — that the victim was shot in her face — noting they found her with “an apparent gunshot wound to the head” and shell casings on the floor next to her. She was transported to a hospital for serious, life-threatening injuries including a collapsed lung. 

At publication time, the woman was set to undertake a “major procedure” while in critical condition. 

In addition to the Glock recovered from the roadway, officers also noted finding another gun in Crew’s car. The officers described it as a pistol-style AR-15 with a loaded magazine in the backseat.  

4. Crew faces life behind bars 

Crew refused a police interview and was booked into the Pinal County jail on a slew of major felonies that could land him a life sentence. 

Police charged Crew with kidnapping and assaulting all four family members with a deadly weapon. He’s also charged with the attempted first-degree murder of his brother and sister-in-law. 

Crew faces more than 120 years in prison. 

In the first half of May alone, Maricopa police responded to five shootings, marking the once quiet city’s highest rates of gun violence in its 23-year history, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety data. 

Since Feb. 28, InMaricopa has reported 10 shootings in the city or by a Maricopa resident near the city, averaging one per week through March, April and May. One of the shootings ended in two deaths. 

Maricopa Police Chief Mark Goodman wrote an op-ed addressing the violence Friday, saying the victim’s life in this case has been “altered forever due to serious injury.” To track all the recent shootings and learn more, check out our interactive map.