i have a couple friends in phoenix, one of whom was acquainted with someone who was wounded in these shootings.
PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Police arrested two men they said Friday were responsible for deadly shootings that have terrorized Phoenix, Arizona, for more than a year.
"These are the two monsters we've been hunting," Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon told a news conference.
Officers detained alleged "Serial Shooters" Dale Hausner and Samuel John Dietman at an apartment complex in Mesa, east of downtown Phoenix at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. (Watch cops haul in the suspects -- 1:00)
Police said the two men will face a lineup Friday afternoon and formal charges are expected to follow.
The case appears unrelated to another Phoenix killing spree attributed to the "Baseline Killer" who is being sought in connection with 23 crimes, including robbery, sexual assault and eight murders.
Gordon told reporters: "We're not yet finished. I said last week that we had turned the tables on these criminals, that the hunters had become the hunted, and that Phoenix is a city on the offensive. No one should question that today."
Since May 2005, the so-called "Serial Shooter" has allegedly committed 36 shootings, police have said. At least six people have been killed and 18 wounded. Horses and dogs also have been shot.
Officials at the news conference said they identified the two suspects after following up many tips from the public.
An officer who emerged from the apartment complex where the men were arrested carried two rifles wrapped in plastic bags.
Loraine Salyers, a resident of the apartment complex, said she lives near where police came in, The Associated Press reported.
"I came out, and there were like a hundred cops," AP quoted Salyers as saying. "I was so scared. My heart's pounding."
The owner of the house next to the apartment complex said she saw police officers pulling trash out of a garbage bin, according to the AP.
Video aired by CNN affiliate stations showed two men being brought to Phoenix police headquarters. Phoenix police asked that the identities of the two men be obscured because they will be in a police lineup.
Mesa police have linked the Sunday night killing of a 22-year-old woman, Robin Blasnek, to the "Serial Shooter," citing forensic evidence.
Authorities have offered $100,000 rewards in each of the "Serial Shooter" anbd "Baseline Killer" cases.
Phoenix police have had about 200 officers working to try to solve the cases, the AP reports.
i think found the website of one of 'em.
http://www.boxingandmore.com/
― gear (gear), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)