Posted on 06/02/2011 12:16:06 PM PDT by DCBryan1
Edited on 06/02/2011 12:23:32 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
YUMA, Ariz. — Yuma police say five people have been killed in a shooting that has forced authorities to close schools and the courthouse. Details about the shooter and victims were not immediately clear. Yuma police Sgt. Clint Norred tells The Associated Press that five people were killed in the Yuma area. It’s unclear if there were others who were injured. Norred says police originally responded to a shooting call around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. The Yuma Sun reports the Yuma County Courthouse and schools in the area have been placed on lockdown
FWD: BreakingNews: More on Yuma, AZ shootings: Attorney is among victims; suspect has taken his own life
Is it just Fox or is CNN in the dark too?
I am cubical bound so I am dependent on FR for the real time information.
Based on the scant info posted here, sounds like a bitter divorce gone to the extreme.
Something’s been sighted on radar! Obama said to admit working quietly on restricting gun rights
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2727668/posts
http://www.kswt.com/category/190331/video-landing-page
Witnesses say the perp was a white elderly male. One shot in the head is an attorney.
Sounds like a REALLY ugly divorce.
That seems to be the big prominent part of the story. Are schools even still in session there? (They've been out for a week here.)
From Google News, most complete account to this time:
Update at 3:27 p.m. ET: The Yuma Daily Sun reports lawyers as saying colleague Jerrold Shelley was killed, according to KOLD-TV, citing the newspaper’s website, which appears to be unavailable. The paper cites police radio chatter indicating three other shootings deaths and another body with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Update at 3:17 p.m. ET: KSWT-TV reports that police have surrounded the Smith Fila Law Firm, where a shooting was reported about 9:20 this morning PT (12:20 p.m. ET).
One person is reported in critical condition at a local hospital.
Update at 3:07 p.m. ET: KYMA-TV reports the killings occurred in “a string of shootings,” one in downtown Yuma and the other four in Yuma County. One person was also wounded. Police believe the shootings are related.
The lockdowns of schools and downtown buildings have been lifted .
Original post: At least people have been 5 shot to death in Yuma, Ariz., and area schools have been locked down, the Associated Press is reporting.
So much for the knee-jerk "amish" response.
I don’t own a gun but I believe in the Second Amendment.Guns aren’t the problem;it’s the person using them.
Illegals run amok. It’s the truth.
If like here in this part of Mohave County AZ, schools out and they are still feeding kids lunch. Too much trouble and reponsibility for the parents to care for their offspring, so taxpayers must. /S
Amish come in all colors.
Uh huh. You go ahead and think that.
The reason the shootings in Arizona are on going is the same reason Operation Gun Runner was carried out. The suppression of 2nd Amendment rights. Arizona is a state that now allows a citizen of Arizona to carry concealed without a license, this has to be stopped, according to liberals, so naturally you are going to see a sh** load of shootings occur over the next few years in a effort to repeal this law.
Actually, it was an older guy shooting his ex-wife’s divorce attorney and others and then killing himself.
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