An Arizona mother, driven to the edge by her husband’s infidelity, tragically took the lives of her two young sons before ending her own life in a horrific murder-suicide. This shocking event unfolded after Andrea Clarice Davis, 38, discovered her husband’s affair with a colleague, according to insights shared by a close friend.
Andrea’s sons, aged 10 and just 18 months, were found dead at their home in Phoenix. This heartbreaking incident followed an initial attack on a woman linked to her husband, marking the beginning of Andrea’s tragic spree.
The violent episode commenced shortly after midnight on Monday at Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill in Glendale, where her husband was seen socializing with a 36-year-old woman. This confrontation escalated outside the establishment, as Andrea confronted the pair.
Glendale Police reported that Nolan Davis, 39, urgently dialed 911, detailing how his wife shot at the woman as she attempted to flee the bar’s parking lot. This woman, whose identity remains undisclosed, fortunately survived with non-life-threatening injuries and is currently recovering in a hospital.
While authorities have not officially confirmed the connection between Nolan and this woman, Amy Bowers, a friend of Andrea’s, alleged that she was involved with him romantically. This revelation sheds light on the possible motives behind Andrea’s tragic actions, painting a picture of a woman pushed to a breaking point by betrayal.
Police did not confirm the relationship between Nolan Davis and the victim, but Andrea’s friend, Amy Bowers, said she was his alleged mistress.
Bowers said Andrea and Nolan Davis had a blissful marriage at first after being together for more than 12 years – but this fell apart when Nolan began having an affair with a co-worker.
‘This relationship that’s been going on between Nolan Davis and his co-worker has completely made her lose her mind,’ Bowers told Arizona Family.
An Arizona mother who shot her two sons in a murder-suicide ‘lost her mind’ after finding out her husband had been cheating with a co-worker, according to a friend. (Pictured: The two boys killed, Austin, 10, and Andolan, 18 months)
An Arizona mother who shot her sons in a murder-suicide sent a photograph of one child’s bloodied head to her husband amid the horrific rampage, police have said
Austin, 10, was killed by his mother in a harrowing murder-suicide in Phoenix on Monday
‘She hasn’t had an issue like this their whole marriage. They haven’t had anything like this come up before. And so I think the shock of that is just a lot for her.
‘She was just, she was not feeling good. And she’s been asking for help from everybody. Like it’s not been secret.’
Bowers said the boys – Austin, 10, and Andolan, 18 months – were ‘really great kids’.
‘Andolan is so sweet and she has one of the most beautiful eyes,’ she said.
‘And Austin, he loves coming and hanging out at my house and playing Mario Party. I painted his whole bedroom. It’s all Mario-themed.’
‘I feel really bad nobody was thinking about the kids this whole time you know Andrea was stressed because Nolan was talking about leaving and she was like, “What am I supposed to do with the kids?”‘ Bowers added.
In a Facebook post immediately after the shooting, Nolan said: ‘Andrea just attempted murder on me. Tried shooting me in the face and tried shooting my unfriend [sic] in the car.’
Felicia Queen, a cousin of the children’s father, told AZ Family that the high school sweethearts had been in the process of separating, adding that Andrea knew ‘a lot about guns’.
Queen said that her cousin was a huge gun advocate with a concealed weapons permit who would have taught his wife ‘how to protect herself and the kids if anything ever happened’.
‘Don’t portray her as an evil person. It’s not ok what she did but she wasn’t a horrible person, she was a good mom,’ Queen added to Fox 10 Phoenix.
For about four or five years, Andrea worked a ‘really good job’ while Nolan was a stay at home dad looking after their eldest son.
‘That would be the hardest thing for him right now because they were best friends. They were little buddies,’ Queen said.
Andrea Clarice Davis, 38, is believed to have killed her children, Austin, 10, and Andolan, 18 months, at a home in Phoenix, after first attacking a woman her husband was with
Austin is pictured with his father on a fundraising page launched by family friends
Queen launched a fundraiser to help support Nolan and cover the children’s funeral expenses. The family asked for privacy.
Police said Nolan dialed 911 around midnight at the start of his wife’s bloody rampage, saying she had shot a woman in the head in the Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill parking lot.
Nolan also told cops his wife texted him as she fled in a gray SUV to a home in Phoenix, around two miles from the bar, saying she was going to hurt their children.
Minutes later, he received a haunting photograph from Andrea, showing one of their children bleeding from the head.
‘The male victim subsequently received a text message containing a photo of one of the children bleeding,’ Glendale Police told the Daily Mail in a statement.
Glendale and Phoenix police officers said they rushed to the home, arriving at about 2.30am, but it was too late to save the boys.
Officers were confronted with a grisly scene, as Andrea and both her sons lay dead.
Davis’s husband told officers that his wife had arrived at the bar and opened fire before she threatened to harm their children over text messages to her husband
Officers responded to the couple’s home in Phoenix at around 2.30am where they found the suspected shooter and the couple’s two children deceased from gunshot wounds
‘It is very difficult to deal with today,’ Phoenix Police Sergeant Lorraine Fernandez told AZ Central. ‘No one wants to see harm done to children.’
According to ABC 15, no record of prior domestic violence reports had been made in the area.
Both scenes remain active, with the Glendale Police Department investigating the bar scene and the homicide investigation under the control of the Phoenix Police Department.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the Phoenix Police Department for comment.
