A gunman in Tucson, Arizona on Sunday made a series of 9-1-1 calls to lure emergency responders to three different locations where he opened fire on them, killing two, ABC News reports. Several others were wounded and three children were reported missing. The 35-year-old unnamed suspect was also shot during apprehension.
Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus said the incident began around 3:45 p.m. local time when a medical emergency call was called into 9-1-1. Around the same time, a report of a fire at a residence in the same neighborhood was called in.
When the ambulance arrived at the address for the first call, the suspect exited his SUV and approached the ambulance, hitting the 20-year-old driver in the head and shooting the 21-year-old EMT in the passenger seat in the chest and arm. The driver is in “extremely critical condition” and the passenger is in stable condition.
Immediately after that, fire department units arrived at the scene of a house fire, where neighbors had already started trying to fight the fire and checking to see if the house was empty. The gunman drove over to that scene and opened fire, hitting killing one of the neighbors in the head, killing him. A fire chief was wounded in the arm, and another neighbor was grazed by a bullet.
Efforts to fight the fire were halted until police arrived and wounded the suspect, taking him into custody.
After extinguishing the fire, firefighters found the remains of another person in the burned out home. It was immediately unclear what was that individual’s cause of death. Further complicating matters is the fact that the whereabouts of two or three children thought to be living in the residence are currently unaccounted for.
“I ask our entire Tucson community to join me in thinking about and praying for the victims of this afternoon’s fire and shooting by Silverlake Park, including first responders from AMR and the Tucson Fire Department. This was a horrific and senseless act of violence,” Tucson Mayor Regina Romero said in a statement Monday.