Over the past week and a half there have been three shootings, and a major fire that involved five structures. This seems a lot for our community of about 50,000 (including New Kingman and Butler).
First incident happened by the Grace Lutheran Church where I go for choir rehearsal. Apparently a man was holding a woman and her kids hostage. When she escaped he fired a few shots at here before stealing a vehicle and heading to Golden Valley. In Golden Valley he shot and killed a 61 year old woman. He then lead a chase back to Kingman. He finally crashed his car at the corner of Harrison and Airway (where we often drive and is a few miles from where he started shooting in the morning). There he engaged officers in a gun battle and was shot several times. He has since been taken to Las Vegas area hospital. I have never heard of the connection between the man and the woman he murdered.
Next shooting involved a road rage incident up Hualapai. Apparently the followed each other down from the mountain until stopping at Walgreens on the corner of Hualapai, Beale and Stockton Hill. There they confronted each other and one driver pulled a gun and shot the other. He was quickly identified and arrested by police with no incident.
The last shooting involved a man holing up in his house after having poured gasoline in the house. He had an argument with his room mate. Swat was involved. After three hours of negotiation they finally convinced him to come out. However he pointed his gun at police at which point he was shot and later died of his injuries.
Finally this past Tuesday there was a large fire. You could see smoke from our house and they say you could see flames from a couple blocks away. This was the street behind ACE Hardware. It involved four homes (one frame and three mobile) as well as a sand alone garage. Newspaper said no injuries but four families, including seven people, were displaced. There has been no cause of the fire given.
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| fire through the windshield on our way to volleyball party |
Kingman is starting to get like the bad area's of California because those Evil people are bringing crime here.
ReplyDeleteReginald Soto
ReplyDeletePrayers up for kingman arizona I will always continue to pray for kingman arizona.
Dalston Vandiver
ReplyDeleteGoing to have to start giving Combat Pay Bonuses to LEO’s for responding to Life or Death situations where the Officers Life is on the line …I was @ Circle ⭕️ K —Detroit — about fifteen feet away from traffic stop in parking lot @ doors when Sgt. Chastain said “drop your weapon or I’ll have to draw my weapon “Officer took a bullet in the left shoulder ….then he took the threat out , happened in an instant….
Arizona Dusty Dal
Bryan N Debi McGregor
You are so right
Teresa Manning Waddell
ReplyDeleteThe fire wasn't behind Ace hardware. It was on Sierra & Edward lane, structures on both streets were destroyed or damaged. I live 2 blks away, it was scary but glad no one was hurt.
I work at the hospital 🏥
ReplyDeleteThe connection of the 61 year old woman and the perp was that she was his ex-girlfriend’s mother. He couldn’t get to her, so he killed her mother.
This is what I was told by staff. Julie Ann Evans
Lisa McDonald
ReplyDeleteThis area has always had gun deaths. With it being so hot and dry fire risk is always more enhanced then other less dry parts of the country. That said I am not dismissing either as issues of concern. This area attracts a certain mentality that contributes to gun violence and an ignorance of AZ gun laws. I am not talking about laws that restrict ownership. I am talking about laws concerning the legal discharging of firearms and when and where is legal. Always amazed by the amount of people either ignorant of them or that blatantly and openly disregard them.
Nicole Humphrey
ReplyDeleteHonestly, the fires are so bad every year. The only thing that I see difference is all the shootings