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Police say Phoenix gunman 'snapped,' killed four, then himself


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By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A man apparently upset over a family business dispute "snapped" before fatally shooting his two brothers, his mother and his sister-in-law and then killing himself at a home in Phoenix, police said on Friday. The shooter was found by police in an upstairs bedroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after Thursday's incident, said Sergeant Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman. Crump said witnesses described how one of the brothers "snaps or loses it." He said the man apparently killed his brothers with a semi-automatic handgun downstairs, then shot and killed his mother when she arrived at the house to see what was happening. He then went upstairs and fatally shot his sister-in-law before turning the gun on himself, investigators said.

 

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