A man is now linked to the killings of six people over several days in Arizona, police said Monday, and it appears the victims were connected to the suspect's divorce.

Dwight Lamon Jones, 56, died early Monday at an Extended Stay America hotel after a police standoff, officials said. Jones, who allegedly fired at officers, was gassed, and a robot was sent inside, where he later was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

These actions "reflect the worst of humanity," Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone told reporters Monday.

The fifth and six killings, which authorities announced Monday, took place hours before the suspect's death.

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Jones' 2011 divorce with his wife involved fights over money and child-custody issues, and Jones was mandated to have psychiatric evaluation therapy, records showed. One of the people ordered to evaluate Jones was well-known psychologist Dr. Steven Pitt, who is also believed to be the first victim connected to Jones, officials said.

Pitt, who consulted with law enforcement on a handful of prominent cases, including the JonBenet Ramsey murder and the Jodi Arias trial, was shot and killed outside his Phoenix office on Thursday night. An eyewitness said he heard Pitt loudly arguing with someone followed by gunshots, according to police.

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Jones' next two alleged victims were paralegals at the law firm Burt Feldman Grenier. A partner at that law office, Elizabeth Feldman, represented Jones' wife, Dr. Connie Jones, in their divorce, according to records.

Jones went to that law firm with the "intent of killing" Feldman, police said.

The paralegals, Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49, were shot Friday afternoon. Sharp was spotted running away from the scene, and later she collapsed and died, police said. Anderson was found with a gunshot wound to her chest and later pronounced dead, police said.

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The fourth victim, life coach Marshall Levine, was shot twice and killed just after midnight Saturday at his Scottsdale office, police said.

Dwight Jones' son, as part of the divorce, was ordered to see a psychiatrist who works in the same office space as Levine, police said.

Levine did not appear to be an intended target and was in the wrong place at the wrong time, officials said.

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Pitt, Sharp, Anderson and Levine were killed with the same gun, police said, and Dwight Jones' DNA was found on a shell casing from that weapon. The DNA connection was made by testing his relatives in northern Arizona, police said.

"We really wanted that definitive proof and it was his DNA on those shell casings that took us through all those scenes -- we had that proof he was our suspect," police said.

The fifth and sixth victims, a man and a woman, were killed just after midnight on Monday in Fountain Hills, Arizona, hours before the suspect died, officials said. It has not yet been determined if the bullets from the final crime scene are connected to the earlier scenes.

ABC News' Marci Gonzalez, Frank Elaridi and Mark Osborne contributed to this report.</s>Steven Pitt, a prominent forensic psychiatrist who had consulted in high-profile murder cases, was shot outside his office in broad daylight Thursday afternoon. He would be one of four victims killed over the next two days within miles of each other in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona.

Around the time Pitt was killed, witnesses heard a loud argument followed by gunfire, police said. The following day, two paralegals were shot at a law office about 10 miles away. Hours later, a man was found shot to death in another office in Scottsdale.

The string of shootings raised questions about whether Pitt may have been killed because of his profession, a line of work that required him to study the minds of criminals, and whether the four killings were related.

Sgt. Ben Hoster, a spokesman for the Scottsdale Police Department, told reporters Saturday that Pitt’s killing was related to the second shooting, which happened at about 2 p.m. Friday. Two women were shot in a law office in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, across the street from government offices. One woman, who had been shot in the head, was able to come out of the office and flag a bus driver for help, Hoster said.

The woman later died at a hospital. Police followed the woman’s blood trail and found the second victim, Hoster said. The two, Veleria Sharp and Laura Anderson, were paralegals for Burt, Feldman and Grenier, a family law firm.

Hoster did not say how the deaths of Pitt, Sharp and Anderson were thought to be connected or address why the three were killed. But the Phoenix (Arizona) Police Department released a sketch of a man suspected of killing Pitt.

The Washington Post was unable to reach Burt, Feldman and Grenier on Sunday. In a statement to the Arizona Republic, the firm said:

“Laura has worked with us as family for more than ten years. Her intellect, passion and friendship has meant more to us than we can even begin to convey. She was more than a coworker, she was a friend, a mother, a grandmother, daughter and wife and gave all of herself to her family, her friends and her work.

“Veleria was a treasured member of our work family. She brought joy, calmness, warmth and compassion to all that she did. She was a dedicated mother, wife and daughter. She and her family shared a deep passion for music and their faith.”

The third shooting happened just after midnight Saturday, when a man was found shot to death inside a business center located roughly halfway between Pitt’s office and the law firm. The Arizona Republic reported that the man, Marshall Levine, was a psychologist and counselor.

Hoster said investigators do not know yet whether Levine’s death was connected to the others.

Pitt, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, was known for his role in the investigation into the death of JonBenét Ramsey, a child beauty-pageant star who made national headlines in 1996 when she was found dead in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. The 6-year-old’s parents became suspects in her death, which had been dramatized in movies and documentaries. Prosecutors announced years later that DNA tests cleared John and Patsy Ramsey in their daughter’s killing.

Pitt also helped police as they tried to solve a string of crimes that terrorized Phoenix in 2006. Mark Goudeau, nicknamed the “Baseline Rapist” and later the “Baseline Killer” because the crimes first happened along Phoenix’s Baseline Road, was convicted on more than five dozen charges, including several counts of murder, rape and kidnapping.

A biography on Pitt’s website says he also consulted and advised prosecutors in the Colorado rape case against Kobe Bryant and in the Columbine High School shooting investigation.</s>ABC News(PHOENIX) — The fourth murder in a string of killings that began with the shooting of prominent forensic psychologist Steven Pitt in Phoenix has now been linked to the first three, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

Pitt, who consulted with law enforcement on a handful of prominent cases, including the JonBenet Ramsey murder and the Jodi Arias trial, was shot and killed outside his office in Phoenix on Thursday night. An eyewitness said he heard Pitt loudly arguing with someone followed by gunshots, according to police.

Law enforcement officials told ABC News on Sunday that this person is the only known eyewitness to any of the murders. The suspect was described by police as a white man wearing a black cap with a short brim.

Scottsdale police had already connected the Friday afternoon killings of paralegals Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49, to the same suspect.

The murder of Marshall Levine, who was killed just after midnight Saturday in Scottsdale, Arizona, has now been linked to the same gun used in all four murders, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

The sources said the motive in the four killings remains unclear, but this is likely “family related.” The law enforcement officials said they have a bead on a “couple” of possible suspects.

Levine’s ex-wife, Carol Kleinman, told ABC News that Levine was a psychiatrist, but was only licensed to practice in New Jersey.

Since moving to Arizona, Kleinman said Levine worked as a life coach and hypnotherapist and dealt with clients who often “are angry.”

Levine’s body was discovered by an acquaintance inside of his Scottsdale office in a neighborhood known as The Greens at Gainey Ranch — about 17 minutes from where the paralegals were shot.

Law enforcement officials told ABC News on Sunday that one of the two paralegals actually crawled to a limo bus after being shot and alerted the driver, who called police. Police followed the trail of blood left by that woman to find the other, shot to death in the pair’s law office.

“We are confident that both crime scenes are related,” Phoenix Police Department spokesman Sgt. Vince Lewis Lewis said Saturday of the shootings of Pitt and the two paralegals.

Steven Pitt & Associates is headquartered in Phoenix, but Pitt worked on a number of nationally known cases, including Ramsey’s murder. The murder of the 6-year-old beauty pageant competitor who was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, has never been solved. Pitt was brought on in February 1997 to help develop a psychological profile of Ramsey’s parents, according to multiple reports at the time.

Pitt also consulted on cases including the Columbine High School massacre, Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case and the Phoenix serial killer known as the “Baseline Killer,” who was sentenced to death for murdering nine people in 2005 and 2006.

No connection has been publicly announced between Pitt and the two paralegals or Levine.

A $21,000 reward was being offered for an arrest and conviction in the four murders.</s>Asa Pitt, a son of Steven Pitt, wipes tears away while speaking about his dad during a memorial service for Steven Pitt at the Desert Hills Mortuary and Cemetery in Scottsdale, Monday, June 4, 2018.</s>Forensic psychiatrist Steven Pitt worked on a number of high-profile crime cases throughout his life: he consulted on the JonBenét Ramsey case, the infamous unsolved 1996 murder of a child beauty pageant queen, and aided police as they investigated Arizona’s Baseline Killer in 2006. And on Thursday afternoon Pitt, 59, was shot dead outside of his office in Scottsdale, Arizona — placing him at the center of a series of killings currently being investigated by local police.

The day after Pitt’s murder, the Washington Post reports, two paralegals — Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49 — were also shot dead in Scottsdale. Police say they believe that the murders are related, though it’s unclear how. And by Saturday, they had a fourth victim on their hands: psychologist and counselor Marshall Levine, 72, who was found dead from a gunshot wound inside his office.

Early reports are indicating that the suspected murderer was found dead by suicide in a local hotel early on Monday morning.

The Cut will update this post as more information becomes available.</s>High-profile forensic psychiatrist Steven Pitt who was murdered outside his office in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Thursday has a Michigan connection.

Pitt, who was known for working on many prominent cases such as JonBenet Ramsey's murder in 1996 and the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colo., was born and raised in Southfield. He graduated from Southfield-Lathrup High School (now Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology).

Pitt also graduated from Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his psychiatry residency training at the University of Michigan's Medical Center.

According to his website, Pitt garnered a national reputation for his expertise in psychiatric evaluations and has been consulted on a variety of criminal cases.

The 59-year-old served as a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona's College of Medicine and has appeared on various national television shows and was often called upon to testify in court about mass murders.

Pitt was gunned down Thursday outside of his office police said. Witnesses said they heard a loud argument followed by gunshots, Phoenix Police Sgt. Vince Lewis said Friday. Pitt was pronounced dead at the scene.

Less than 24 hours later, Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49, were shot in the downtown Scottsdale law offices of Burt, Feldman and Grenier about 2:15 p.m. Friday. Both women worked as paralegals.

Then psychologist and counselor Marshall Levine, 72, was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound early Saturday inside a Scottsdale office building. Police said an acquaintance discovered Levine's body shortly after midnight.

On Monday, police said that the man suspected of murdering all four people had died.

Phoenix police said officers tracked the suspect over the past day and a half and were attempting to make contact with him Monday morning at an Extended Stay America hotel.

Shots were fired as the SWAT team went into the suspect's room, but officers did not fire, Phoenix police Sgt. Vince Lewis said, the Associated Press reported.

The suspect was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Lewis said.

Arizona Republic reporters Kelsey Mo and Anne Ryman contributed to this report.</s>The fatal shootings of two paralegals on Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, have been linked to the killing of Steven E. Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist known for his work on high-profile cases like the JonBenet Ramsey investigation, and who was shot miles away less than a day earlier.

Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49, were both shot about 2:15 p.m. yesterday near a law office where they worked as paralegals.

One of the women was shot in the head and attempted to get help by flagging down a bus parked at a nearby intersection near the law firm.

The woman was then rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead.

Responding officers then found the other woman who was wounded.

Today investigators say “Our investigation has determined that this double homicide is related to the shooting of Steven Pitt.”

Pitt was a 59 year old father who was found shot to death outside of his Phoenix office last week.

Police describe the suspected shooter as a bald Caucasian man wearing a dark hat with a short brim.

When asked if Dr. Pitt’s killing could have been connected to his work, Sergeant Lewis said investigators “haven’t ruled it out.”

Steven Pitt & Associates is headquartered in Phoenix, but Pitt worked on a number of nationally known cases, including Ramsey's murder.

The murder of the 6-year-old beauty pageant competitor found dead in the basement of her family's home in Colorado, home has never been solved.</s>A couple hundred people celebrated the life of forensic psychiatrist Steven Pitt during a memorial in Scottsdale, Monday, June 4, 2018. Tom Tingle, The Republic | azcentral.com</s>A suspected serial killer wanted in connection with the murders of a prominent forensic psychiatrist and three other people in Arizona was found dead Monday, police said.

The unidentified man killed himself in a Scottsdale hotel room after firing at the SWAT team that entered his room.

"This does appear to be related to the recent homicides in Phoenix and Scottsdale," Sgt. Vince Lewis of the Phoenix Police Department said as dozens of officers sealed off the Extended Stay America hotel.

Lewis did not identify the suspect beyond calling him an "adult male."

"There were multiple shots fired from inside that room," Lewis said, while the adjacent rooms were being evacuated. "No officer fired any shots during today's operation."

The hunt began on Thursday after 59-year-old Steven Pitt, who advised police and prosecutors in high-profile cases like the JonBenét Ramsey murder and the Columbine school massacre, was shot dead outside his Phoenix office.

Witnesses who reported hearing a loud argument and then gunshots provided police a description of the gunman that allowed them to create a sketch.

Then on Friday, paralegals Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49, were killed inside a law office in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, and police were able to link their deaths to the Pitt killing.

A fourth shooting victim, Marshall Levine, 72, was discovered dead in his Scottsdale office early Saturday morning. His building houses mostly counselors and therapists, and The Arizona Republic described him as "a psychologist and counselor."</s>A police sketch of the man suspected of killing Steven Pitt on May 31, 2018.

PHOENIX — Arizona police say a man suspected of murdering a prominent forensic psychologist and two paralegals at their offices in Phoenix and neighboring Scottsdale is dead.

A statement issued by Scottsdale police just before 7 a.m. MT on Monday said officers were attempting to make contact with the suspect at an Extended Stay America hotel.

Officials said SWAT teams were evacuating adjacent hotel rooms and they heard shots fired inside the suspect's room. He was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Sgt. Vince Lewis, a Phoenix police spokesman.

Lewis said police did not fire any shots and no one else was injured.

The series of murders that began Thursday evening have rattled the legal community. Police still have not said how the shootings are connected.

First killed was Steven Pitt, a forensic psychiatrist who consulted on a number of high-profile cases including the Baseline Killer case and the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation. He was gunned down outside his office.

June 2: Police identify 4th shooting victim in Phoenix suburb connected to deaths of psychiatrist, paralegals

Sgt. Vince Lewis, a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department, said witnesses overheard a loud argument followed by gunshots at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The 59-year-old died at the scene. The shooter fled the area, leaving police with nothing but a sketch of a round-faced man with a dark-colored cap.

Less than 24 hours later, Veleria Sharp, 48, and Laura Anderson, 49, were shot in the downtown Scottsdale law offices of Burt, Feldman and Grenier about 2:15 p.m. Friday. Both women worked as paralegals.

Police said one of the women was shot in the head. She then ran out of the office and flagged down a party bus driver to call for help. She was later pronounced dead.

The second woman was found shot to death inside the office.

All three of those shootings have been linked. Police have yet to say whether a fourth shooting death was related.

Psychologist and counselor Marshall Levine was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound early Saturday inside a Scottsdale office building.

Hoster said an acquaintance discovered Levine's body shortly after midnight.

As of Sunday evening, police said they were still investigating a possible connection between the first three murders and the Friday shooting of Levine in his office.

The lack of answers left many legal and mental-health professionals with a sense of unease as they prepared for the workweek. Multiple lawyers said they had hired additional security or planned to avoid going into the office Monday.

Since police hadn't named a suspect, no one knew who else might be a target. Lawyers met in darkened cafes Sunday, scrambling to figure out which clients the lawyers at Burt, Feldman and Grenier had in common with Pitt.

Stephanie Isherwood, who owns the building where Pitt's office was located, said in an interview Sunday that Pitt was aware of the dangers of his career.

His entire profession focused on the mental health of criminals, frequently delving into unstable territory, Isherwood said. But he didn't let his cases dominate his personal life. Instead, he divided his time between his work and his love for hiking, traveling and spending time with his family.

Isherwood still remembers the first time she met Pitt nearly 15 years ago: He had already made a name for himself as a prominent psychiatrist by consulting on a number of notorious cases, including the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School and the JonBenét Ramsey murder investigation.

Yet he casually welcomed a group of frenzied reporters into his office to discuss an ongoing case while clad in a crisp white dress shirt paired with a pair of hiking shorts and boots. A news conference wasn't going to get in the way of hiking Camelback Mountain.

Pitt's zeal for life made his death even more heartbreaking to Isherwood, she said.

"He was willing to dedicate himself to this, and he put aside the risk to do what he did," she said. "He was trying to triumph over evil and serve justice, and this is what happened."

After Pitt's death, the office turned over security footage and other items to law enforcement. Isherwood said she is positive the answer is hidden somewhere within those materials.

Contributing: Bree Burkitt, The Arizona Republic. Follow The Arizona Republic on Twitter: @azcentral
The gunman who is suspected of having killed six people – among them, prominent forensic psychologist Steven Pitt – in Arizona, United States, in a five-day time span has been found dead in a Scottsdale hotel. His death is considered a suicide.