Police: 5 shot dead in Phoenix home

Judson Tomaiko and Paulina Pineda | The Arizona Republic

Show Caption Hide Caption Police: 5 family members dead after business dispute Police in Phoenix say five adults were found dead inside a home after a dispute over the family business erupted in gunfire.

PHOENIX — Five people were fatally shot inside a north Phoenix home in a suspected family dispute Thursday afternoon, police say.

Police discovered the bodies of three men and two women after an hours-long barricade situation in a residential neighborhood near 44th Street and Bell Road.

A SWAT team used a robot to search the house before sending in a dog and officers, said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman.

Officers arrived at the home in the 4300 block of East Anderson Drive around 2 p.m. Witnesses at the scene said they heard the sound of muted gunshots about an hour later.

A woman who was able to leave the home told officers that it was a family dispute gone wrong, Crump said.

Additional details and the identities of the gunshot victims were not immediately available.