Arizona spree killer commits suicide

Scottsdale -- The man police identified as the suspect in the Phoenix killing spree committed suicide when law enforcement closed in on him at the Extended Stay Hotel on North 69th Street in Scottsdale.

The killer who I will only identify as Dwight, may have killed up to six people over a 5-day spree. Law enforcement had tied him to the murders of four professionals, one of whom was the forensic psychiatrist in the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation.

The killings occurred in Scottsdale, Fountain Hills and Phoenix, according to police.

Dwight in altered
appearance

Dwight was traced by cops to the hotel earlier Monday. According to authorities, several shots were fired from inside his room as police closed in--police did not fire any shots.

The first victim killed Thursday was Steven Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist who worked the Ramsey case of a 6-year-old beauty pageant child who was found dead in her family's Boulder, Colorado home--a murder that has remained unsolved and has drawn national attention. Her parents and brother were cleared in 2008 by the prosecutor, based on DNA evidence.

The other five murder victims were not involved in the case.

More details are likely to become public as this story develops.


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