Aaron Juan Saucedo, 23, in custody since a separate April 19 shooting, was booked again into Maricopa County Jail on 26 charges, including murder, attempted murder, drive-by shooting and aggravated assault related to the serial attacks, police Chief Jeri Williams said Monday. Known as the “Serial Street Shooter” because of where the victims were targeted, the killer gunned down nine people in a dozen separate shootings in 2015 and 2016, according to police. Man held in Phoenix 'Serial Street Shooter' case PHOENIX -- Aaron Saucedo was arrested this week in connection with a fatal shooting in 2015 and is being considered a "person of interest" in the Serial Street Shootings that terrorized the Phoenix area over four months in 2016. "Police say that after Romero's killing, Saucedo struck again about four months later in killing 22-year-old Jesse Olivas, who was gunned down on New Year's Day 2016 while standing in front of a home. Police accuse Saucedo of killing nine people, injuring two and firing at three more without causing injuries in 12 shooting incidents between August 2015 and July 2016. “This case plagued our community for more than a year,” Williams said, “and left behind a trail of victims that included mothers, sons, brothers, sisters and families still mourning the loss of their loved ones.”

“We hope that our community will rest a little easier and that our officers will get a little more sleep knowing that the wheels of justice are finally in motion,” she said. Police also have linked Saucedo to the April 19, 2016 death of 60-year-old Krystal White; the June 3, 2016, death of Horacio de Jesus Pena; and to the killings of two women, Angela Linner and Stefanie Ellis, and 12-year-old girl Maleah Ellis on June 12, 2016.
The Phoenix, Arizona police arrest the suspected Maryvale serial shooter.