Officials are asking people not to touch anything that landed on their property, but to let investigators retrieve it. Hospital administrator Jason Bleak said Friday that they knew each other personally and all quit their jobs voluntarily at different times over the past two years.
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Messages left on the home and cell phones of Joshua and Tiffany Cluff were not returned.
Joshua Cluff had been Jones’ boss.
Sanders also said Jones built bombs during his Army stint and did demolition work.
Sanders said Friday that Jones told him he had bought the gun his mother used to kill herself. It was not immediately known whether the injured person was involved with the suspect or an innocent bystander, she said.
But Sanders says he was surprised to hear that Jones set off the blasts that showered shrapnel and debris across Panaca, which is near the Utah border.
“But before the explosion they were able to get out”, said Kerry Lee, the sheriff of rural Lincoln County who was outside his nearby home in Panaca when the first blast erupted about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
Investigators sent to Jones’ residence at the RV park in northwestern Arizona on Thursday morning found “a significant amount of explosives” in his motor home, said Rusty Cooper, deputy chief of the Kingman police department. A storage shed also needs to be searched.
Following the explosion, 30 people had to be evacuated from the neighborhood. Police investigate shrapnel from a Wednesday night bombing that killed one person on 5th Street in Panaca, Nev., on Thursday, July 14, 2016. A temporary shelter has been set up at a high school for the evacuated residents of the mobile home park.
The Arizona search of Jones’ bus-like motorhome and storage shed by a remote-controlled robot was expected to last into the weekend, Cooper said.
Officers from the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office, Nevada Highway Patrol and the Red Cross stand outside a fire station after a briefing about a Wednesday night explosion that killed one person in Panaca, Nev., on Thursday, July 14, 2016.
The explosions Wednesday night tore through a auto and a house on a quiet residential street in the small farming community of Panaca. The suspect was killed and a young boy nearby suffered minor injuries.
LAS VEGAS (AP) – Arizona police announced Friday the discovery of improvised bombs and several pounds of explosives in the home and auto of a man who traveled to a quiet Nevada town and set off bombs that killed him and showered the community with shrapnel and debris.
Two explosions, at least one of them set off by a bomb or bomb-making materials carried in a auto, have rocked a small farming town in the USA state of Nevada, killing a suspect in the vehicle and injuring another person.
Lee isn’t identifying the suspect, but he says authorities know his identity. For the last several months he had been living about a four-hour drive away, in Kingman, Arizona, officials said.
“You can see as part of the blast there’s a crater right there”, Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee said as he pointed to the damage.
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Sandoval is coming back early from the National Governor’s Association conference in Iowa.
