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BumRushDaShow

(140,282 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:06 PM 21 hrs ago

Suspect arrested in shootings of Democratic National Committee office in Arizona

Source: The Independent

5 hours ago

A suspect has been arrested in connection with three separate shootings in 20 days that damaged a Democratic National Committee campaign office in suburban Phoenix, authorities said Wednesday.

Tempe police said Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, also is accused of hanging several political signs lined with razor blades on Tuesday in Ahwatukee, an affluent suburb of Phoenix where most voters have chosen Democrats in recent elections.

Authorities said the hand-painted signs were attached to palm trees and appeared to criticize Democrats and their presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kelly was being held on three felony counts of acts of terrorism and four other counts related to the shootings, according to police. The Phoenix resident had an initial court appearance scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, around the same time Tempe police planned to release more information about Kelly’s arrest.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ap-democrats-kamala-harris-democratic-national-committee-phoenix-b2634451.html

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Suspect arrested in shootings of Democratic National Committee office in Arizona (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 21 hrs ago OP

He should also face some consequences for booby-trapping those signs with razor blades. Hermit-The-Prog 21 hrs ago #1

That may be the terrorism charge. mymomwasright 21 hrs ago #3

God, how ungrateful can a person be, to place razor blades on these signs too? The charges of terrorism should stand, SWBTATTReg 21 hrs ago #2

He rather looks the part, non? Leghorn21 21 hrs ago #4

Mentally ill with no political agenda IronLionZion 20 hrs ago #7

looks like Rick Scott PedroXimenez 19 hrs ago #13

He looks nice. llmart 18 hrs ago #19

AZcentral: FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspected shooter of Arizona Democratic Party office Hermit-The-Prog 21 hrs ago #5

Ha ha he won't be voting for his MAGAloon master on November 5th or be getting those guns back anytime kimbutgar 20 hrs ago #8

"[P]eople you try to stay away from" Hermit-The-Prog 20 hrs ago #10

I bet those neighbors are relieved he's not around anymore. kimbutgar 20 hrs ago #12

"Supoort local media." nt Igel 18 hrs ago #16

"Phrase not found" Hermit-The-Prog 18 hrs ago #17

I don't believe I've ever heard the term "menagerie of weapons" used before. llmart 18 hrs ago #18

Looking at the picture of him he definitely looks like an unhappy loser kimbutgar 20 hrs ago #6

Gee; I wonder who has been stoking the fanaticism? EarthFirst 20 hrs ago #9

One of many disposable assets in the Maggotverse NBachers 20 hrs ago #11

I'm so glad they got this guy! I wonder if the office going to be opened back up? liberalla 19 hrs ago #14

It used to be that a red nose (broken blood vessels) was sign of long alcohol 70sEraVet 18 hrs ago #15

I'm gonna move to Tempe so I'll have a chance oasis 18 hrs ago #20

Good news orangecrush 17 hrs ago #21

More on Mr. Kelly drumpfsucks 16 hrs ago #22

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,291 posts)

1. He should also face some consequences for booby-trapping those signs with razor blades.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:14 PM

21 hrs ago

mymomwasright

(352 posts)

3. That may be the terrorism charge.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:16 PM

21 hrs ago

We'll see.

SWBTATTReg

(23,935 posts)

2. God, how ungrateful can a person be, to place razor blades on these signs too? The charges of terrorism should stand,

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:16 PM

21 hrs ago

since this creep wanted to hurt people, innocent people could have really gotten hurt here...

Leghorn21

(13,693 posts)

4. He rather looks the part, non?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:19 PM

21 hrs ago

IronLionZion

(46,841 posts)

7. Mentally ill with no political agenda

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:37 PM

20 hrs ago

PedroXimenez

(492 posts)

13. looks like Rick Scott

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 08:23 PM

19 hrs ago

llmart

(16,270 posts)

19. He looks nice.

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 09:52 PM

18 hrs ago

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,291 posts)

5. AZcentral: FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspected shooter of Arizona Democratic Party office

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:19 PM

21 hrs ago

FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspected shooter of Arizona Democratic Party office
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-breaking/2024/10/23/suspect-identified-tempe-democratic-party-office-shootings/75806849007/

Federal agents on Wednesday morning hauled more than 100 firearms, including "machine guns," out of the Ahwatukee Foothills home of a man suspected of shooting at a campaign office for the Democratic Party three times and posting bags of white power labeled as poison near political signs.

Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, was arrested on Tuesday night near his Ahwatukee Foothills home by Tempe police who, according to court documents, used surveillance footage to find the suspect. Exactly how they narrowed in on Kelly was not made plain in the document released Wednesday.

About a dozen plainclothes law enforcement personnel were taking inventory of a menagerie of weapons in the carport of Kelly's home on Wednesday morning. A reporter overheard mention of handguns being found in a master bathroom safe and the words “machine gun” and "silencers.”

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kimbutgar

(22,945 posts)

8. Ha ha he won't be voting for his MAGAloon master on November 5th or be getting those guns back anytime

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:38 PM

20 hrs ago

Soon!

And the guy doesn’t strike me as guy who has a lot of money to pay a lawyer to get him out on bail!

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,291 posts)

10. "[P]eople you try to stay away from"

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:44 PM

20 hrs ago

Neighbor Kris Smith said she didn’t know the man too well — by choice.

“There’s people you try to stay away from, “said Smith, a retiree who has lived in the neighborhood since 1992.

Smith said a neighbor who lived next door to the suspect often had contentious run-ins over the growth of bushes and pool maintenance issues. Smith said that neighbor described him as a “January 6-type person.“

kimbutgar

(22,945 posts)

12. I bet those neighbors are relieved he's not around anymore.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #10)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:54 PM

20 hrs ago

I had a crazy guy that lived up the street where I lived that was threatening. We had to call the police on him. Ahe harassed a bunch of us and four households of us went and got a restraining order against him. He finally had a stroke and died a little while later. His immediate next door neighbor rang our doorbell to let us know he passed and brought some nice whiskey to take shots in celebration!