Police search for suspect in fatal office shooting

Associated Press

PHOENIX

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.

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 seven 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.

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.

Vanessa 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 people locked themselves in offices until authorities evacuated the complex that houses insurance, medical and law offices.