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BumRushDaShow

(142,417 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:06 PM Oct 23

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 Oct 23 OP

He should also face some consequences for booby-trapping those signs with razor blades. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 23 #1

That may be the terrorism charge. mymomwasright Oct 23 #3

God, how ungrateful can a person be, to place razor blades on these signs too? The charges of terrorism should stand, SWBTATTReg Oct 23 #2

He rather looks the part, non? Leghorn21 Oct 23 #4

Mentally ill with no political agenda IronLionZion Oct 23 #7

looks like Rick Scott PedroXimenez Oct 23 #13

He looks nice. llmart Oct 23 #19

AZcentral: FBI finds hundreds of weapons at home of suspected shooter of Arizona Democratic Party office Hermit-The-Prog Oct 23 #5

Ha ha he won't be voting for his MAGAloon master on November 5th or be getting those guns back anytime kimbutgar Oct 23 #8

"[P]eople you try to stay away from" Hermit-The-Prog Oct 23 #10

I bet those neighbors are relieved he's not around anymore. kimbutgar Oct 23 #12

"Supoort local media." nt Igel Oct 23 #16

"Phrase not found" Hermit-The-Prog Oct 23 #17

I don't believe I've ever heard the term "menagerie of weapons" used before. llmart Oct 23 #18

Looking at the picture of him he definitely looks like an unhappy loser kimbutgar Oct 23 #6

Gee; I wonder who has been stoking the fanaticism? EarthFirst Oct 23 #9

One of many disposable assets in the Maggotverse NBachers Oct 23 #11

I'm so glad they got this guy! I wonder if the office going to be opened back up? liberalla Oct 23 #14

It used to be that a red nose (broken blood vessels) was sign of long alcohol 70sEraVet Oct 23 #15

I'm gonna move to Tempe so I'll have a chance oasis Oct 23 #20

Good news orangecrush Oct 23 #21

More on Mr. Kelly drumpfsucks Oct 23 #22

Violent thug Dem4life1234 Oct 24 #23

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,590 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, 06:14 PM

Oct 23

mymomwasright

(366 posts)

3. That may be the terrorism charge.

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

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:16 PM

Oct 23

We'll see.

SWBTATTReg

(24,107 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, 06:16 PM

Oct 23

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

Leghorn21

(13,738 posts)

4. He rather looks the part, non?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:19 PM

Oct 23

IronLionZion

(46,978 posts)

7. Mentally ill with no political agenda

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:37 PM

Oct 23

PedroXimenez

(599 posts)

13. looks like Rick Scott

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 07:23 PM

Oct 23

llmart

(16,331 posts)

19. He looks nice.

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 08:52 PM

Oct 23

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,590 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, 06:19 PM

Oct 23

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

(23,283 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, 06:38 PM

Oct 23

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

(36,590 posts)

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

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #8)

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:44 PM

Oct 23

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

(23,283 posts)

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

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

Wed Oct 23, 2024, 06:54 PM

Oct 23

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!