Phoenix police said Tuesday that a seventh homicide and three other shootings are related to the same serial shooter or shooters believed to be responsible for six other murders in recent months.
(FOX)- The shooting death of Krystal Annette White, 55, is the additional homicide now listed by police as believe to be linked. White was found dead on April 19 along a street east of downtown Phoenix after neighbors reported hearing gunshots in the area.
“Someone out there knows who did this,” said Police Chief Joe Yahner. “We need our community to call us or Silent Witness and help us solve these cases, bring justice to these families and victims, and prevent more violence from occurring.”
That location of White’s death is miles from the Maryvale area of west Phoenix where the other homicides occurred between April 1 and June 12. Those victims included two women and a 12-year-old girl shot at one location in the most recent incident.
The new list added three non-fatal shootings in addition to the killing of White that police said are linked, for a total of eight incidents that included seven fatalities.
The additional four incidents were added after investigators reviewed all possibly related incidents since Jan. 1, a police statement said. “All of these incidents were already under investigation but have now been included in the series of violent crimes previously linked and reported,” police said.
Two of the newly listed shootings involved people wounded late at night on back-to-back nights in March. One of those two shootings occurred east of downtown and two miles from where White was found.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.