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30-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, was
taken into custody on Thursday following the shooting spree that
left his 29-year-old wife and 5- and 7-year-old daughters dead
at their west Phoenix home, Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant
Tommy Thompson told a news conference.
The suspect told investigators the shootings were justified
“because in God’s eyes it was all right for him to deal with
someone in this manner who had been involved in adultery,”
Thompson said.
The couple’s 3-year-old daughter was found by arriving officers
hiding and unharmed, Thompson said.
The suspect is also accused of fatally shooting a 46-year-old
man, who he told police was in a relationship with his wife, at
an apartment complex, he said. Two other people at the scene
were wounded.
Police arrested him without incident late on Thursday during a
traffic stop near the scene.
Police said officers were called to an apartment complex
Thursday evening following reports of gunfire and found one man
dead and a male and a female with gunshot wounds.
Officers then went to the suspect’s home after one of the
wounded said she was concerned about his wife and children’s
safety, Thompson said.
The three additional victims were found dead from gunshot wounds
and the 3-year-old was hiding under a bed, he said.
Thompson did not have any information on the suspect’s criminal
history or whether police had been called to their home in the
past.
(Reporting by David Schwartz in Phoenix; Editing by Dan Whitcomb
and James Dalgleish)
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