Phoenix police confirmed that Steve Singer died from his injuries in the shooting. Singer owned Fusion Contact Centers, LLC, a local call center business.
The Aurora shooting suspect is named James Holmes.
But there is another James Holmes.
For several months before the July 20, 2012 theater event, a Phoenix police officer played the sync in his several media appearances.
His name game name is James Holmes.
I wrote the paragraph above on December 22, 2012, and put it away in a draft on this blog. It seemed unnecessary to bring attention to this man, doing his duty, just because he happened to share two parts of the name of the Aurora suspect.
"They're all around the high schools, and don't think that it's just south and west, because it's happening up north," Phoenix police Officer James Holmes
said about teen fight clubs in June 2012 .
Phoenix Police Media Relations Officer James Holmes is shown on the scene of another local crime event over two years ago.
Today, headlines shouted out, "Six people injured in Phoenix, Arizona mass shooting."
The shooting occurred around 10:30 a.m. MST (12:30 p.m. EST) at an office building in Phoenix, Arizona. Police believe that the shooter is a white male in his 60s, who was seen fleeing the scene in a white SUV.... After being questioned by reporters, Officer James Holmes said the shooter appears to have been working alone and that the reason behind the attack remains unknown. Source.In a breaking report, Yahoo News posted this early:
Phoenix Police spokesman James Holmes said the people who were shot were taken from the scene to a local hospital, and there was no immediate word on their condition.Changing their story later to delete Holmes' first name entirely, and leaving this awful reference, it appeared in their later article:
Police said they were searching for a white man in his sixties with gray hair. "Some say he left the building in a vehicle, and some say that he was still inside, so that's kind of where we are at," police spokesman Holmes said.
The gunfire occurred at an office complex on 16th Street north of Glendale Avenue.
The Arizona Republic reported that Mark Hummels, a partner with Osborn Maledon and president of the Phoenix chapter of the Federal Bar Association, is among the wounded. He was shot after leaving a mediation session, and was reported to have a strong pulse after surgery.
2nd Victim Dies: Mark Hummels (Source: omlaw.com)
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UPDATE:
Mark Hummels, the attorney gravely wounded in a downtown office shooting Wednesday, died Thursday night after being taken off life support, according to his colleagues at the law firm of Osborn Maledon.
Hummels, 43, was one of three people police said were shot by Arthur Douglas Harmon, 70, apparently over a long-running financial dispute.
Steven Singer, 48, a call-center company CEO, died from his wounds Wednesday; Harmon’s body was found Thursday in Mesa, dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; a third victim shot in the hand, Nicole Hampton, 32, is expected to be released from hospital Friday.
Doctors declared Hummels to be brain-dead as a result of his injuries, according to the Arizona Republic on February 1, 2013.
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Steve Martos, also of the Phoenix Police Department, said officers staged outside a home in the area of 14600 block of North 28th Street in Phoenix in connection to the shooting. Police have said they believe the home is connected in some way to the office shooting.
47 days from Sandy Hook shooting and the 'gardener' Dan HOLMES - who claimed that Nancy Lanza was showing off her guns to him.
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On April 11, 2011, one of the Phoenix shooting victims, Mark Hummels, of the Federal Bar Association, wrote to the Arizona Republic newspaper, concerned about increased border-control efforts and a shortage of federal judges in the wake of the murder of Judge John Roll in Tucson allegedly by Jared Lee Loughner.
ReplyDeleteWrote Hummels: "Increased law-enforcement efforts at the border have doubled the number of federal criminal cases being filed in Arizona. Yet Congress has failed to add more judges or to fill judicial vacancies to handle the flood of cases.
Former District of Arizona Chief Judge John Roll, who was murdered Jan. 8 near Tucson, had been instrumental in pushing Congress to act."
What are the odds of that? Hummels is concerned about judgeship vacancy (Roll, killed in massacre) and border security issues - both which are the top issues in the country right now. It boggles the mind.
Here's the link to his letter. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2011/04/11/20110411monlets113.html#ixzz2JZ8WuMMA
The victim that was slain is Steve Singer. If one was to Google Steve Singer the first website the engine provides is: ihatestevensinger.com a bizarre coincidence. The site belongs to a diamond jeweler out of New Jersey but imagine for a moment that this coincidence occurred around another event? Two James Holmes, two Steve Singers.
ReplyDeleteThe shooter was Arthur Douglas Harmon. Accoring to Wikipedia there is an artist born in 1860 named Arthur Douglas who was born in Phoenix, Rhode Island. Again two James Holmes, two Steve Singers and now two Arthur Douglas' both from Phoenix, two Phoenixes. Adding to the series of name coincidences Arthur Douglas from Phoenix RI father's name is James.
Weird that their names were Singer (sing), Hummels (hum), Harmon (harmony).
ReplyDeleteThe day before the Phoenix shootings, another high-profile shooting took place. In Alabama, Jimmy Lee Dykes shot a school bus driver and took a boy hostage. The name Dykes originally referenced Hadrian's Wall (also known as Hadrian's dyke), the most heavily fortified border in Roman Britain. This resonates with what RDR mentioned about Hummels's concern about border security.
ReplyDeleteThe ongoing Alabama standoff is near Destiny Church. Destiny's Child has been in the news recently, as there has been speculation that the three woman singing group (which syncs with Anon's Singer (sing), Hummels (hum), Harmon (harmony)observation) will make their first (phoenixlike) public reappearance during the Super Bowl halftime show.
Destiny's Child's Beyoncé Knowles was in the news recently when she performed at Obama's inauguration. Public attention on this event increased when it turned out that she had sung along to a recording of the national anthem. Obama and football are also linked by a statement he made in a recent interview in which he criticized football as being dangerous.
The trailer for Scientologist Tom Cruise's new movie Oblivion shows a bombed-out football stadium. The "Birthplace of Scientology" is Phoenix, Arizona. The Dark Knight Rises also had a scene where a football field is destroyed. As mentioned in the post, the Phoenix Police Media Relations Officer is named James Holmes.
Obviously, my attention has been drawn to the upcoming Super Bowl game. In some of my writings on this blog, I have used the metaphor of an alchemical current connecting Red Dawn events, and alchemical symbolism is to be found in this year's Super Bowl match-up between the Ravens and the 49ers. Alchemists used the raven to symbolize the nigredo, or blackening, stage of the alchemical process. The alchemist experiences a dark night (Dark Knight) of the soul during this phase as he begins the journey of creating the Philosopher's Stone, a substance which can turn base metal into gold. Gold resonates with the Ravens' opposing team, as the 49ers were named after the prospectors who arrived in California around 1949 during the Gold Rush. In the Downard/Hoffman reality tunnel, one of the primary goals of alchemy was the creation and destruction of primordial matter, a feat which was accomplished with the detonation of an atomic bomb at the Trinity Site. Destiny's Child recently released their first song since 2005: "Nuclear."
The alchemical current seems to be winding its way to New Orleans. Let's hope it does not spark yet another tragedy.