“Hypothetically, should the shooter be stopped by police, he would have some logical reason to be in that area”, Van Zandt said. “This is somebody who likes to get up close, he likes to see his victims when he shoots them…perhaps when they die”.
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Numerous shootings have occurred in west Phoenix and all of the incidents have occurred at night.
Police in Arizona are investigating several unsolved murders connected to a potential serial killer.
As discussed in a City of Phoenix Police Department Facebook post, the victim was shot, without provocation, while walking along the 1100 block of East Moreland Street on March 17.
In addition to the aggravated assault and homicide, the suspected Phoenix serial killer is being blamed for shooting and damaging an unoccupied vehicle.
Two people were killed in April and two in June. “This is a guy who’s getting out of his vehicle and walking over, getting close”. “The detectives looked at his social media, and they said he was a good guy”.
She said that Maleah and her mother did everything together.
The only similarity is that all victims were outside when shot.
Stefanie Ellis (pictured) was shot 14 times, including in the stomach, chest, nose chin and through the head. During the same period, another man killed nine people.
White’s death was the seventh homicide investigators linked to the serial street shooter on Tuesday.
All these incidents are now believed to be linked. While the suspect was only initially tied to four shootings that killed six people in Maryvale, the addition of White’s case links the shooter to a crime scene clear across town.
A total of 9 people have been shot.
Peña had just gotten out of his auto in front of his family’s home when he was gunned down.
She arrived at the home to find her brother’s dead body still on the ground. Margarito Castro, father of Manuel “Manny” Castro Garcia, 19, visits his son’s grave at a cemetery Thursday, July 14, 2016, in Phoenix.
Witnesses saw Garcia have a brief conversation with someone who approached his auto on June 10. Someone then fired shots from inside the auto. The final three killings happened on June 12 in front of the victims’ home.
Diego Verdugo Sanchez, 21, was the shooter’s first victim, gunned down while having dinner with his pregnant fiance’s parents.
He just came home from work.
“I was not aware that she was in the auto with them”, Sylvia Primous-Ellis, 65, said. Ellis later succumbed to her injuries. There is no mention of Maryvale in his new moniker, and a newly released sketch refers to him only as the “serial street shooter”. There is a reward of up to $30,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Authorities have pleaded with the community for tips.
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Williams left the Phoenix Police Department in early 2011 to take over as chief of police in Oxnard, California. Five of these deaths occurred in a 10-day period. “We need our community to help us solve these cases”. She and two others were shot in front of a home.
