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Jan. 30, 2013 5:23pm
Phoenix Police Hunting Gunman Who Shot 3 Inside Office Building

This frame grab provided by abc15.com shows the scene at a Phoenix office complex where police say someone shot at least three people on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Officer James Holmes said the victims were taken to hospitals and did not know if their injuries were life threatening. Credit: AP

PHOENIX (AP) — Police are searching for a 70-year-old man suspected in a Phoenix office shooting that left one dead and two wounded, saying that he is “armed and dangerous.”

Police identified the suspect as Arthur D. Harmon. They identified a man who died hours after the Wednesday morning shooting as 48-year-old Steve Singer. He’s the CEO of Fusion Contract Centers Inc.

Police say a 43-year-old man was listed in critical condition along with a 32-year-old woman.

Police didn’t release the names of the wounded, but a Phoenix law firm, Osborn Maledon, said one of its lawyers, Mark Hummels, was among the wounded.

The firm said he “was representing a client in a mediation” when he was shot.

As police searched for the shooter, SWAT teams and two armored vehicles surrounded his house about 7 miles from the shooting scene. Police served a search warrant to enter the home.

For a time, officers, believing the shooter was inside, used a megaphone to ask him to surrender.

The gunfire at the office complex prompted terrified workers to lock the doors to their offices and hide far from the windows. SWAT officers searched the building.

“Everyone was just scared, honestly, just scared,” said Navika Sood, assistant director of nursing at First at Home Health Services who along with her co-workers locked the entrances to their office.

Sood said police evacuated the office about 30 minutes after she first heard the popping noises.

Phoenix Police Hunting Gunman Who Shot 3 Inside Office Building

This frame grab provided by abc15.com shows the scene at a Phoenix office complex where police say a gunman shot at least three people on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Officer James Holmes said the victims were taken to hospitals and did not know if their injuries were life threatening. Credit: AP

The shooting took place on the same day that hearings on legislation to address gun violence were convened in Washington, with former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords testifying for stricter gun controls.

A gunman shot Giffords in the head during a shooting rampage in Tucson in January 2011.

Around 10:30 a.m., the gunman arrived at the office building and got into a dispute with someone, a conflict that escalated to the point where he drew a gun and shot three people, Thompson said.

Vannessa Brogan, who works in sales support at an insurance business in the three-story complex, said she heard a loud bang that she thought at first was from somebody working in or near the building.

She said others at the business thought they heard multiple loud noises. She said people locked themselves in offices until authorities evacuated the complex that houses insurance, medical and law offices.

Becky Neher, who works for a title company in the building, said the two gunshots she heard sounded like two pieces of metal banging against each other.

Watching from her second-story office, she saw people leaving the building.

“Someone yelled, `We have a shooter,’” she said. She saw two victims lying on the ground outside the back side of the building. She said health care workers who have offices in the complex came out to help.

Don Jaksa, a software consultant who works in the building, said he was listening to the radio when he suddenly heard “two pops.” He said he didn’t think they were gunshots.

“My co-worker goes to the range all the time,” he said. “He identified it as gunfire.”

His co-worker then locked the door. After five minutes, they left and ran into police and someone carrying a stretcher. The police escorted them back to their office and told them to lock the door again.

They were eventually evacuated, and as he sat on a rock outside the complex, his wife called to make sure he was OK after seeing the shooting on the news.

Workers were later allowed to leave the building. Two hugged each other when they got outside.

“You don’t expect this when you come to work,” worker Lindsa Rincon said.

This story has been updated.

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  • Memegalt
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:31pm

    Anyone else notice the officers name…James Holmes? (colorado shooters name, right?)

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    • stopprintn
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 1:04am

      Saw the name. Lib media has every right to recieve whatever it’s got coming to them. May it be overwhelming and handed out soon.

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  • TheBurningTruth
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:06pm

    I’m not a conspiracist by nature, however, I can’t miss the fact that the number of school shootings took off dramatically after the election. It seemed that there were multiple school shootings every week for awhile. Then there’s a whole bunch of workplace and entertainment place shootings as well.

    Knowing the high regard for life that the Progressive Left has (an abortion in every womb and two cars in every garage) I got to wondering about the Left’s role in all of this. For instance, remember the “Truthers” claiming that 9/11 was an inside job? Believing that the Left is behind this huge increase in shootings for the purpose of obliterating the 2nd Amendment is really less ridiculous than thinking that 9/11 was an inside job. Pay a crazy here and there to go on a shooting spree and tell them that it’s really for “the greater good.” Sure a few innocents will die, but in the end think of all the others that will be “saved” by eliminating the guns.

    Given the vitriolic hate seething from the Progressive Left, I really don’t have too much trouble considering this to be possible. After all, this is exactly the kind of bogus reasoning the Left uses against conservatives all the time.

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    • RDavis49
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:33pm

      Been saying practically the same thing all along. They know they’re about to do something drastic to this country and they also know that the majority of gun owning Americans won’t standby and let them do it. So, what’s the best was to deal with that. “GUN CONTROL” and eventually gun confiscation. The writing is on the wall so far as I’m concerned… Call me what you will, but I just don’t trust the bastards….

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    • Metallicat
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:09pm

      It would be quite easy for law enforcement and emergency personnel to coordinate and stage fake shootings in front of an unsuspecting public and news cameras. especially when they practice drills for these scenarios all the time. Orson Wells once convinced America that the world had been invaded by aliens with just a radio program.

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    • battles
      Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:35am

      The devil definitely knows who is in office and will marshal his troupes to march double time during a demoncratic regime. Like his party, the democratic party, he will try to use them to go after self defense weapons after any mayhem he creates. As anyone should be able to see, the devil has great evil intentions in mind for America, but our ability to defend ourselves is in the way.

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  • SoulLine
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:58pm

    I believe an investigation into the prescription psyche drugs all these shooters are on would be very revealing, it’s why we’ll never see one.

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    • angeleyes63
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 9:48pm

      And guess who supports the anti depressants and anti psych drugs overwhelmingly?
      God is replaced by the shrink in commie lefty utopian hell holes.

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  • RDavis49
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:52pm

    Here we go…. another damn gun jumps up out this ignorant guys pocket and just starts shooting people. You really can’t trust those criminal minded guns to behave themselves…. Obviously this is BS, but when the liberal socialist/communist democrats get going on the crime, the pissed off gunman, obviously with criminal intent when he went there with his gun, will be secondary to the gun. Another reason for personal fire arms protection. This guy lost his cool when the big dollar guys tried to jilt him out of $20,000.00 bucks, but this is no reason to shoot and kill someone. Since when is a human life worth $20k? Stupid is as stupid does……

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  • Thundergod
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:56pm

    Why wont they identify exactly what type of business this building houses throughout the story? Sounds as if its a bunch of legal counselors and insurance agent leeches who ruin lives,especially during bad economic times,and inspire revenge in people.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:53pm

    Since when do we have non gang related shooting deaths of this magnitude and such rapid succession? There really needs to be an investigation of the gun control advocate groups. Same people you find strapping suicide notes to their chest saying the gun people did it. Same alinsky people tgat say “by any means”, :”serve the state”, “Serve the collective”, brainwash and propagandize. pay people to picket, get behind “occupy”

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  • Thundergod
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:27pm

    WTF does Gabby Giffords have to do with this story? I think this guy snapped and went after a lawyer he thought helped ruin his life in hard economic times.

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    • Thundergod
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:38pm

      Old guy denied his Social Security disability claim,cant afford to live,shoots lawyer he paid a chunk of money to help him and was robbed twice. so he went looking for revenge. thats my theory.Probably wont learn the real details,other than he shot people with a gun. so left to speculate.

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    • Thundergod
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:50pm

      Who hasnt been ripped off by an insurance company that takes your money and then finds any excuse to drop your coverage? Thats enough to make any man want to go on a shooting spree at their offices. I think something similar happened here.

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  • YOURSENSEI
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:23pm

    This is what you must know:

    Clearly a plant, some 20-year-old black kid masquerading as a 72-year-old white guy just to make conservatives look bad.

    It is so.

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    YOURSENSEI  
  • jackact
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:03pm

    …One of Obama’s 24.3 million unemployed or an illegal alien, any bets?

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    • cdn1979
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:07pm

      read the story smarty pants: “Police identified the suspect as Arthur D. Harmon.” old white guy. gun crime is not race related. Some times crazy people just do crazy things. doesn’t matter what ethnic or political or religious background you are.

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  • 50211bs
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:00pm

    I wonder if the office bldg. was a gun free zone?

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  • Unix
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:56pm

    Has anyone else noticed the frequency of these ‘events’ is increasing daily…whatever the cause, i do believe it is the economy, not guns, people are in this position:

    when someone loses everything, and has nothing to lose, they lose it

    It is a sad fact today, as the bumbling idiots in DC make the problems we have much worse than it needs to be…the economy will crash soon and hard, be prepared for the worse my friends!

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    • angeleyes63
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:17pm

      @UNIX
      I believe you are 100% correct, and it will only get worse just what our great savior opos wants.

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    • Unix
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:25pm

      ya, his fundamental transformation from usa to ussa is almost complete, now he wants the guns to finish us off…but the economy is the real problem, the ponzi scheme is just about bone dry.

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      Unix  
    • ******
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:06pm

      And the bumbling idiots in DC will hide behind there armed guards saying, or should I say ‘yelling’ ITS THE GUNS FAULT’ ITS THE GUNS FAULT’

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    • punyhuman
      Posted on February 1, 2013 at 2:15am

      True, the economy’s worse, people are more worried about what’s to come, and maybe there is more gun action, I don’t know. What I do know is that shootings are being reported a LOT, contributing to the uncertainty surrounding us these days. Sadly, it probably should be reported more, as it is now. Knowledge is power.

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  • taintso
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:56pm

    I personally think we are going to see a lot of shootings from people that shouldn’t have guns in the first place, with the law biding public disarmed it will make their criminal enterprise much easier with out risk. And a lot of these shooters will be just deported to come again later.

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  • BlasberryStrat
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:26pm

    Hey, ask Pelosi and Feinstein…..bet the farm that they know where and WHO that shooter is. After all, they need to know where to send the check.

    Is it only extremely obvious to just me, that we haven’t been hearing one word out of Pelosi since the start of the whole gun rights battle? She got reeeaaalll quiet shortly before the Colorado theater killings, and hasn’t been in the spotlight throughout. Did she just become disconcerned, or does she “know something else”??

    ALL A SET UP PEOPLE! There’s not that many nut balls who have a club and decided to just start doing this “now”. It is way too convenient of timing. And I have to inform again that there are hundreds of murders every day that police and media choose not to report in order to “not alarm normal citizens”. That’s the way it works. But NOW you are going to see more and more getting ‘reported’ to MAKE IT LOOK LIKE there is ramped up violence everywhere, but it is IN FACT simply the normal amount. SMOKE AND MIRRORS. Do NOT believe what Obama controlled media is reporting! All they are doing is reporting the NORM that they left out before banning guns was the cool / in fashion.

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  • KevINtampa
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:18pm

    Fix your headline…

    They searching for an assailant/psychopath/deranged individual/perpetrator who shot 3 people…

    You should really start watching your own network and get your choice of language straightened out.

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    KevINtampa  
  • The-Monk
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:05pm

    It must have been really hot in Phoenix….

    Curse that global warming climate change !!!

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:29pm

      Actually Monk, I had to scrape frost off my windshield this morning. My bet is he’s a disgruntled employee. But 70-yrs old, wow. I deal with old farts every day out here in the valley of the son. I work in a cardiologist office. I have noticed, people are getting meaner and meaner every day. No tolerance for anything. I work the front office, and I see really angry patients all the time. It scares me a bit that someone might come in and go off half-cocked. But, hey- I Know where I am going when I go, so I keep on keepin on.

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      BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?  
  • HOOT_OWL
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:56pm

    What the heck Blaze .Does anyone edit these stories anymore..?

    Nothing like injecting β€œGabby Giffords’ into the story ,to maximize effect for a desired response .

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  • emh1701
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:54pm

    Why are there all of a sudden so many shooters?

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    • revelation2012
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:00pm

      who is PAYING them ???

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    • revelation2012
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:08pm

      ‘THEY’ want the PUBLIC to BEG the GOVERNMENT to ‘STOP’ re ‘shooters’

      afterall ‘THEY’ the GOVERNMENT have the MOST to ‘GAIN’ ?

      the GOVERNMENT will have ALL the GUNS,,, put the “LIGHT of TRUTH” on ‘THEM’!!!

      what happens when LIGHTS are turned ON cockroaches!!!

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    • justangry
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:19pm

      Coincidence? Of course the media is hyping this crap. I wish the ‘conservative’ pundits reporting it would include whether or not the victims themselves were armed. It would be a nice way to spin it back in our favor. “More unarmed victims, victimized… News at eleven.”

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:28pm

      Did you know most bank robberies go unreported on in the media?

      The reason being is that MOST bank robbers get away and are never caught. If people knew this it would only lead to MORE bank robberies, so bank robberies are only reported if they meet the following criteria:

      1. The robber is apprehended.
      2. Someone is injured in the robbery and they are no longer just looking for a robbery suspect but a murderer/attempted murderer.

      The more and more coverage of a type of crime the more and more the type of crime becomes salient in the minds of people who would actually commit such a crime. Hence, it should be no surprise that if we are constantly reporting on these situations the more crazies there will be that actually do it.

      I guess the thought line is:
      “Everyone else as mad as me did what I want to do and killed people; if they did it so will I.”

      I believe this is similar to Glenn’s “Bubba Effect” he keeps harping about.

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  • DougHuffman
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:48pm

    Jus’ thinnin’ the herd of sheeple, boss. No one fired back, so what’s the risk?

    MOLON LABE Lord of Flies, Lord of Lies.

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  • tonypro
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:48pm

    This story at one time would’ve been reported on, and then moved on to the next issue.

    Now these stories are akin to a drug, and the lame stream media will squeeze the fix for every drop they can get out of it.

    I have to agree with you lel2007…..here we go again.

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  • Apexduck
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:41pm

    Gasp! Are those SWAT officers carrying those evil “assult rifles”? I thought those were no go for defending one self against an attacker…… Hmmmm?

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  • bikerdogred1
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:37pm

    Who is doing the shooter,some responsible adult who has all his permits and is mentally stable or is it a NUT job who votes on the democratic lines who could even be in the obama family tree.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:46pm

      Correct, well said.

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    • YOURSENSEI
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 7:21pm

      This is what you must know:

      Who is doing the shooting, some responsible adult who has all his permits and is mentally stable or is it a NUT job who votes on the Republican lines who could even be in the Cheney family tree.

      It is so

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    • stopprintn
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 8:28pm

      YS, Richard Cheney is one of the most honorable men I have ever met. You sir are uninformed and repulsive. Your cheritable contributions amount to zip, and may your computer slap ya upside yer head. Dip Sh_t.

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  • krjones
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:36pm

    Let’s ban office buildings!

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    • Red Meat
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:42pm

      False flag right there. I don’t believe in coincidences.

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    • JRook
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:44pm

      Not necessary but there is something to be drawn from the following – “Around 10:30 a.m., the gunman arrived at the office building and got into a dispute with someone, a conflict that escalated to the point where he drew a gun and shot three people, Thompson said.” Consider the fact that everyone is a law biding citizen up to the point the commit and are convicted of there first crime. Let’s see exactly who this guy is and if he obtained the gun legally, through a gun show or off the street. It is certainly reasonable to limit an individuals ability to have a gun available to settle disputes or conflicts…. at least in a civilized society.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:02pm

      @JRook
      Go back to Sploder and play your games.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:47pm

      @RED MEAT You really think the Marxist POS needs a false flag to do what he wants to do to us? Congress is full of irrelevant candy@sses afraid to put the bastard where he belongs,federal prison so he’ll do whatever he wants with his EO’s.

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  • lel2007
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:35pm

    Oh boy, here we go again.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:39pm

      Finally this story shows up at the Blaze. It showed at Fox news 5 hours ago. Snore z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z

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  • Elena2010
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:32pm

    Another nut job off his meds!

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 30, 2013 at 5:32pm

    .
    He drew a gun. I bet he had a AR 15 tucked into his belt loops….

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 6:08pm

      Hi Spank,
      “He drew a gun.”

      Yep, drawing guns is a big no-no….

      Just ask that 1st grader that drew a gun in class.

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    • TH777
      Posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:10pm

      @The Monk: Come on…you know how dangerous Lego guns can be!! We need to protect the other children in the classroom. Of course I’m being sarcastic. What a sick world this has become. Kids can no longer be kids. Kids can no longer do what other kids have been doing for years and years. Everyone seems to be a threat no matter how young and innocent they are except for the one who truly is our biggest threat….obumma.

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