(08-23) 18:22 PDT Glendale, Ariz. (AP) --
Two Wal-Mart employees were shot to death Tuesday as they gathered shopping carts in the parking lot of one of the retail stores in suburban Phoenix, and police later arrested the suspected gunman.
The shootings occurred in the middle of the parking lot, about 75 yards from the store entrance. At one point, a body could be seen in one of the corrals used for collecting shopping carts.
Hours later, police spokesman Mike Pena said a suspect had been arrested without incident in a retirement community in nearby Peoria.
Investigators initially sent a robot to the man's door to make contact, fearing that he could still be armed. The man came out with his hands up, Pena said.
The suspect, described as being in his 50s or 60s, still needed to put through a lineup and questioned by detectives. His name was not released Tuesday evening.
There was no immediate word on what might have motivated the attacks.
"We don't know how this happened or what led up to it," Pena said. He would not say whether the man knew the victims, who were also men.
Anyone know what the suspected motive was?
A man in an SUV with Texas plates began shouting angrily when he was blocked in his Wal-Mart parking place by two associates moving shopping carts during Indian Market weekend in Santa Fe. The man was freed before going ballistic, roaring off at a high rate of speed miraculously avoiding the crowds of pedestrians many of them children.
GEEZ!
I drove right through that area too this afternoon on my way to my appointment around 4pm!
I need to stay in the East Valley....