PHOENIX — Five adults were found dead inside a north Phoenix home after a shooting Thursday in a suspected dispute about the family’s business, police said.
The names and ages of the three men and two women weren’t immediately released. But police said the three men were brothers and the dead women apparently were the men’s mother and a spouse of one of the brothers.
Two other women and two children managed to escape the home unharmed, according to police.
One of those women told officers that the shooting stemmed from a family dispute, police spokesman Sgt. Trent Crump said.
“Our dispatcher could hear shots fired in the background while that call was coming in,” Crump said. “A caller had been able to escape the home at that point, get out and start to give us information.”
Crump said the family had origins in Morocco. During an hourslong standoff before the bodies were found, police used a megaphone to try to communicate with the occupants of the home, addressing the family in Arabic.
The Arizona Republic reported that one neighbor said the family owned a transportation service.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many people fired shots, but police said they weren’t looking for any suspects.
