The community contains the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist Temple . This facility was the site of a mass shooting in 1991 which left nine people dead , among them monks and temple helpers . It remains the deadliest homicide incident in Arizona history since statehood . Sixteen-year-old Alessandro Garcia and 17-year-old Jonathan Doody were charged with the crime , convicted , and sentenced . Doody was tried three times and sentenced to 281 years of prison in 2014
mass shooting in 1991
Waddell Buddhist temple shooting
Waddell, Arizona