They knew he was armed and suspected of killing multiple people. They couldn't just pull him over and arrest him. They focused on a square mile near Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard. An officer spotted the car at about 3:30 p.m. using a combination of what Lockerby described as luck, intuition and technology. Investigators began scrambling to find the car early Sunday morning. Investigators spotted the car in surveillance footage recorded near Pitt's office both before and after the shooting. Luckily, his gold Mercedes wasn't exactly subtle. He was an exact match for the sketch of Pitt's killer - except he was black. Jones's name hadn't been publicly mentioned by police, although he quickly rose to the top of the suspect list after the conversation with Connie. Pitt and the law offices, did this case come into mind? Yes, it did." "I have to be honest with you, detective," Selmi said. It was the first time she saw a client attend sessions with a bodyguard. She immediately recalled the Jones divorce. "If I had been in Phoenix, I think I would have been one of them," she said. She was in the process of moving to another state when an investigator reached her on the phone Saturday afternoon. Selmi hadn't been in her Mesa office for weeks. "I think that he is desperate, and he knows that his son is not even interested in him," Connie said. His previous attempts to reach their son also had gone unanswered. Jones had tried to friend his son and his girlfriend on Facebook a few weeks before the shootings began. Something must have changed recently if Jones was driven to murder, Connie speculated. He still drove the gold Mercedes he won in the divorce, which Connie described as his "only worldly possession." He never moved into a permanent residence after he left their home in 2009. The visits between Jones and his son stopped a few years after the divorce. Connie and her son hadn't seen him in years, but she knew he was still holed away in an Extended Stay hotel in Scottsdale. He lived entirely off that money.Ĭould this all be because he ran out of money? She performed the custody evaluation and made the final call limiting Jones's contact with his son to supervised visits.īut Connie wondered what could have set Jones off after all these years.Ĭonnie had been ordered to pay Jones hundreds of thousands of dollars in addition to $6,000 a month for the next five years. Paulette Selmi had to be next, Connie told Heinzelman. The family had just returned from vacation and quickly retreated to their second home.Ĭonnie wondered if her ex-husband had gone to her Valley house to kill her, only to find she wasn't there. She had left early on the day Levine was killed.Ĭonnie said she knew her ex-husband had committed the murders after recognizing the exterior of Kolbe's building while watching news coverage of the shootings. Levine would later sublet half of Kolbe's office. Connie took him to a psychologist, Karen Kolbe. The divorce was hard on their then-pre-teen son. The paralegals just were the only ones in the office that afternoon.Ĭonnie repeatedly took out orders of protection against her ex-husband. Jones hated Feldman. She was likely the one Jones had gone to the law firm to kill, Connie theorized. In Jones's mind, Pitt was responsible for the divorce and Jones' loss of custody of his son.įeldman had been Connie's divorce attorney. It made sense that Pitt was a target, Connie said. "(Pitt said that) he was prone to violence, that he had an obsession with me and that eventually some trigger would make him do something, that he felt like he was likely to, um, do violence," Connie told the investigator. He predicted Jones's mental state was going to continue to unravel without the right treatment. The court had Jones involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, but according to records, he was not found to be mentally "abnormal." Pitt later performed a risk assessment on Jones. that he would wait until I had (my guard down)."
"That he could wait as long as he needed to. "For as long as I can remember, he said that if I ever left him that he would kill me. He threatened to drown her in the pool.Ĭonnie called police, and that resulted in a standoff with a SWAT team. When Jones surrendered, he came out with the boy in front of him - like a human shield.Ĭonnie filed for divorce six days later. It didn't assuage her fears.
She claimed Jones pinned her to a wall and struck her in the face with his forearm. Connie intervened, and an argument quickly escalated to violence. Jones was criticizing his son's performance after a basketball game. It came to a tipping point on May 6, 2009. He pinned her to a couch with a knee on her chest two years later. Dwight allegedly struck Connie and fractured her sternum in 2007, according to court records. There were allegations of domestic violence. They tried to make it work for their young son.
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