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Suspect in six Arizona killings fatally shoots himself in hotel room as officers close in, police say

A man suspected of killing six people, including a prominent forensic psychiatrist, in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona, fatally shot himself as police closed in Monday, ending a days-long manhunt that has rattled many in the legal and mental-health communities.

Police on Monday afternoon identified Dwight Lamon Jones, a 56-year-old man who had been arrested for domestic violence in 2009 and had been living in hotels in the nine years since, as the gunman who shot the forensic psychiatrist, a psychologist and two paralegals. Each of those victims was loosely connected to his divorce proceedings, Scottsdale Assistant Chief of Police Richard Slavin said.