Suspect arrested in shootings of Democratic National Committee office in Arizona

[BumRushDaShow]

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

[Hermit-The-Prog]

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

[mymomwasright]

3. That may be the terrorism charge.

We'll see.

[SWBTATTReg]

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

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

[Leghorn21]

4. He rather looks the part, non?

[IronLionZion]

7. Mentally ill with no political agenda

[PedroXimenez]

13. looks like Rick Scott

[llmart]

19. He looks nice.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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]

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

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!

[Igel]

16. "Supoort local media." nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. "Phrase not found"

[llmart]

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

Arsenal maybe, but I thought menagerie was for lots of animals.

[kimbutgar]

6. Looking at the picture of him he definitely looks like an unhappy loser

And probably not a loving person in his private life.

[EarthFirst]

9. Gee; I wonder who has been stoking the fanaticism?

Top notch work by the FBI in collaring this man before someone was injured; or worse with his cache of weapons on hand.

[NBachers]

11. One of many disposable assets in the Maggotverse

[liberalla]

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

Thank you FBI!

[70sEraVet]

15. It used to be that a red nose (broken blood vessels) was sign of long alcohol

abuse. Does a purple nose mean dead tissue from years of using nose powder?

[oasis]

20. I'm gonna move to Tempe so I'll have a chance

to get on the jury there.

[orangecrush]

21. Good news

That's one less to worry about.

[drumpfsucks]

22. More on Mr. Kelly

Reported on local news today..... he had 100 guns and 250,000 rounds of ammo in his house.

[Dem4life1234]

23. Violent thug

His ancestors wore klan hats.