Police: 5 killed in shootings in Yuma, Arizona

Facts, please.

Aholes?

The gunman, identified as Carl Hal Dyess, first shot and killed attorney Jerrold Shelley at his downtown Yuma law office about 9:15 a.m. PT (12:15 p.m. ET), says Yuma community relations director Greg Hyland. Minutes later, the Yuma Sheriff's Office reported a second shooting believed to be connected to Shelley's killing.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – A man apparently angry over a divorce case went on a shooting spree in Yuma, Arizona, on Thursday, killing five people and wounding another before taking his own life, the mayor said.

One of the dead was identified as an attorney who was shot at his Yuma law office, and some of the other victims were friends and relatives of the gunman, Mayor Alan Krieger told Reuters by telephone.

Details of the incident were sketchy, but Krieger said the shooting unfolded at more than one location in and around the city, located in the southwestern corner of Arizona near the border with Mexico.

Krieger said the gunman's motive was not entirely clear but that he was believed to be upset over a divorce case.

The incident began shortly after 9 a.m. local time and continued until about 11 a.m., when the gunman shot himself to death in a rural area outside Yuma, the mayor said.

He said City Hall and the local courthouse were shut down as a security precaution after the shooting first erupted. A Yuma school official said three nearby elementary schools also were locked down for about two hours.

"It's a tragedy," the mayor said, adding that the shooting was especially troubling coming just five months after six people were killed and 13 others wounded, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting rampage across the state in Tucson.

"It affects the city, and obviously, that's not the kind of press we would like to have for our city. But it doesn't have anything to do with the way we are in Yuma or Arizona," Krieger said.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis, David Schwartz and Dan Whitcomb; Additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Greg McCune)

Remember the last shooting in AZ? That murderer will be sitting in some pllush mental facility, watching TV, movies, eating good, keeping dry, good place to sleep. Yes, the liberal judges, the liberal justice sustem, political correctness, works real good. Lesson? Can I say? Go out, do a bad thing, play dumb get a plush place to live.

what do u think. Who takes up most of the space in the jails, our well treated illegals

UPDATED 2:40 p.m. - The suspect in a series of shootings around Yuma County is dead, police said. Carey Hal Dyess, 73, of Yuma, apparently shot and killed one person in Yuma and three people in Yuma County before shooting himself, according to a press release from the Yuma Police Department.

YPD Spokesman Clint Norred said the shootings are connected, and are currently under investigation. Cpl. David Rodriguez, of the Wellton Police Department, added that the shootings were connected to a divorce gone bad.

Dyess was found in the area of Blaisdell and Highway 95 at 11:30 a.m. by Yuma County Sheriff’s deputies. He died from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Norred would not confirm the identity of any of the victims, but attorneys in the downtown Yuma area confirmed the Yuma victim was attorney Jerrold Shelley, who was shot and killed.

The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office and Wellton police were called to the first scene at about 5 a.m. in reference to a woman being shot four times in the face at Avenue 23E and Old Highway 80. Rodriguez said the woman was flown to a Phoenix-area hospital, but he did not know her current condition.

“When we got on scene she was alert and breathing,” Rodriguez said. “She was friends with the ex-wife.”

Deputies and Wellton police responded to a second shooting at about 9 a.m. when the body of a woman was found in a yard at Avenue 35-1/2E and Old Highway 80. Initial reports on the police scanner said the woman may have suffered a gunshot wound.

Then, around 9:21 a.m., the Yuma Police Department responded to a shooting in the 300 block of 2nd Avenue in Yuma. According to police, an elderly male suspect, now identified as Dyess, entered a business and shot and killed an adult male.

According to police scanner traffic, two more shootings were then reported in the Wellton area, followed by a report of a self-inflicted gunshot wound near Blaisdell off Highway 95.

The Yuma Sun obtained an email sent to city of Yuma staff members by City Administrator Greg Wilkinson, which stated the following:

“There have been some shootings in the City and County. It looks like the person has targeted certain people but please use extra caution.”

According to the email, a police officer was stationed at main entrance to Yuma City Hall.

The Yuma County Courthouse and schools in the area, including Roosevelt, Fourth Avenue Junior High and the Post building, were placed under lockdown as a precaution, but that has since been lifted.

Wellton Mayor James Deermer said he still didn’t have a lot of information as of noon about the shootings and “rumors are floating around.”

“This is a tragedy for our community ... that’s true anywhere,” he said.

In Wellton, Antelope Union High School and Wellton Elementary School, Sunset Health Center, City Hall and the municipal court were all closed while the shootings were being investigated. Rodriguez said that none of the shootings happened within city limits.

Yuma Mayor Al Krieger commended public safety officers for their swift response to the tragedy.

“The situation has ended and now we’re sorting out the details,” he said.

“My sympathies to the families with this loss of life.”

The Yuma Police Department and Yuma County Sheriff’s Office will hold a joint press conference tonight at 5 p.m. at the Yuma City Council Chambers,.

Yuma Police Chief Jerry Geier and Capt. Eben Bratcher of the Yuma County Sherriff’s Office will speak to the media in reference to this ongoing investigation.

Check back at YumaSun.com as this story develops.

MS-13 morons?

Why would you automatically think it is an illegal who caused these deaths? The fella who shot representative Giffords was one of you all, idiots!

Bunch of racist crook. I cannot believe these people writing this kind of stuff. It goes to show you how small their brain's size is.

illegals?

Another sad story Wow God bless us and them and their families.

We need more illegal aliens!!

A Male Egyptian Muzzie is a perfect candidate. The police there checks female prisoner virginity. They perform on 99% Muslim females Genital Mutilation. A man is allowed 4 wives and none of them can divorce if he doesn't agree, and if she does he is permitted to kill her.

wite trash i'm sure

Just beaners being beaner, mass murder, beheading, serial killing, trafficing drugs and human is their idea of fun. Just mexicans being mexican taking part in the mexican national pastimes.

Wow, Arizona is now the new South L.A.

Hopefully they took out a few of their own kind...

If a school was locked down, it's probably a mental case or a kid who has been bullied one time too many.

Is it the "tea party" at the shopping mall ... again?