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Twenty or more people seem involved in the fight on Drinkwater Boulevard last month.

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It was a wonderful night in downtown Scottsdale on February 24 -- until these guys showed up.

Video posted on YouTube, and found by one of our condor-eyed readers this morning, shows the horrors of a gnarly, multi-fighter brawl in the 4200 block of North Drinkwater Boulevard. Behind the brawlers, the prominent sign for the Jackrabbit lounge can be seen.

This video has almost everything you could want in an amateur fight-night: Trash-talking, beat-downs, women crying -- but thankfully, no visible guns or knives.

Scroll down to check it out.

 

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David Appleton is off the hook -- for now.

​The second-degree murder charge against David Appleton, a Scottsdale defense attorney who fatally shot a motorist during an apparent road-rage incident earlier this month, has been dropped, the County Attorney's Office confirms to New Times. However, that doesn't mean he won't eventually be charged with a crime.

"We've asked the Scottsdale Police Department for some additional investigation before making a final charging decision," Jerry Cobb, spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, says.

If you're unfamiliar with Appleton's repeated road-rage incidents -- and his fatally shooting 50-year-old Paul Pearson, a father of three -- click here.

Appleton's attorney, Richard Gierloff, tells New Times he doesn't expect the MCAO to file other charges against his client. According to Gierloff, Appleton -- who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer's Association -- has the law on his side.

"It was clearly a justifiable use of force," Gierloff says. "You have the right to use deadly physical force if someone's trying to kill you."

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Attorney David Appleton has been involved in three road-rage incidents since March. His latest ended with Appleton fatally shooting an unarmed motorist.

​David Appleton, a Scottsdale defense attorney who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer's Association, fatally shot a motorist last week during an apparent road-rage incident.

Turns out, Appleton's got a bit of a history in the road-rage department.

According to court documents obtained by New Times, Appleton's called Scottsdale police twice this year to report road-rage incidents. In both cases, police determined Appleton was the aggressor.

In March, Appleton -- who always travels with a gun in his vehicle "for protection" -- called 9-1-1 to report that he'd been cut off by another motorist and that he planned on pulling out his gun, presumably to scare or injure the other driver. The 9-1-1 operator advised him not to do it, but Appleton said he planned to anyway. In that case, Appleton didn't shoot anyone, and no charges were filed against him or the other motorist.

In another incident this year, Appleton called police to report that he spotted a woman driving 100 miles per hour. He followed her to her gated community where his pursuit of the woman ended without violence.

Neither Appleton or the other driver was cited, but police determined that based on the 9-1-1 call, Appleton was the aggressor.

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David Appleton, the former president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer's Association, fatally shot a man during an apparent road rage incident last night.

​"Inconsistencies" in his story about fatally shooting a man during an apparent road-rage incident last night has led to the arrest of Scottsdale attorney David Appleton, who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer's Association..

About 7 p.m. yesterday, Appleton called police to report that he'd shot a man in the parking lot of a Scottsdale pharmacy near Pima and Pinnacle Peak roads.

When police got to the scene, they found Appleton waiting near his Toyota SUV. Also near the SUV was the body of 50-year-old Paul Pearson, whom Appleton admitted to shooting.

Appleton, Scottsdale police say, was cooperative, even as he was taken into custody.

When questioned by police about the shooting, Appleton told detectives he was driving north on Pima Road when he noticed a car tailgating him. He pulled over in the parking lot of a nearby CVS pharmacy to see what the other driver wanted.

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Michael Arvallo (right) at Pat's Run.

​Phoenix police have identified the victim in a fatal shooting last night on the I-10 -- which forced the highway to be closed until about 8:30 this morning -- as 49-year-old Michael Arvallo.

Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos says the shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. yesterday as Arvallo was driving on the westbound I-10 at 51st Avenue.

Arvallo's truck reportedly crashed into the median -- presumably after he was shot.

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​A 45-year-old man is in a Valley hospital in "extremely critical" condition after he was run over by a cab yesterday afternoon.

After running the man over, the cab driver just took off -- and there might be a reason: he was seen arguing with the man who was run over just moments before hitting him with his cab.

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​When 56-year-old Mitchell Fickes grabbed his gun and jumped out of his pickup truck to express his apparent road rage to the man in the truck in front of him on Saturday, he probably didn't expect his fellow motorist to also have a gun. But this is Arizona, so of course the other driver had a gun -- and he fatally shot Fickes in the face.

Fickes was driving eastbound on Williams Field and Market Square roads near the San Tan Mall, when he jumped out of his Ford pickup truck -- gun in hand -- and approached the driver of the truck stopped in front of him.

Bad move.

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Police suspect Rebekah Corwin might be mentally ill.

​The Maricopa woman who police say used her truck to try and run down several officers -- with three young children in the vehicle -- offered cops the following explanation for her strange behavior: "I freaked out."

Since our post this morning about 29-year-old Rebekah Lynn Corwin's wild ride through north Scottsdale early yesterday morning, during which she injured two police officers and damaged four Scottsdale police cars and a gate to a private neighborhood, we've obtained court documents that indicate the arresting officers think she may be mentally ill.

Click here for details of Corwin's wild ride.

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​A Maricopa mom in a pickup truck led police on a chase through north Scottsdale yesterday morning resulting in multiple wrecks, injured police officers, and the woman getting Tasered -- all with three kids in the truck.

The wild ride started about 6 a.m. when a Scottsdale police officer watched 29-year-old Rebekah Lynn Corwin in a parking lot near Carefree Highway and Scottsdale Road. According to police, Corwin didn't know where she was and appeared confused.

When the officer approached Corwin's truck, she revved her engine and rammed it into the police cruiser, barely missing the officer.

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​Five cars, a fire hydrant, and three landscaped yards. That's what an Avondale motorist hit on what police describe as a "path of destruction" Friday afternoon.

When he was done wreaking havoc on Avondale roadways, 34-year-old Justin Fernandez parked his mangled car in his own garage -- with car parts and destruction acting as bread crumbs for Avondale cops, who arrested him shortly after his wild ride came to an end.

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