A man in a Halloween costume sustained critical injuries in an attempted robbery after the victims fought back. On October 30, at 10:45 p.m., a 29 year-old man was sitting in his apartment at 9826 N. 7th Avenue when suspect Justin James Pare, 33, entered the apartment through a kitchen window wearing a Halloween costume with a mask. The victim initially thought it was some kind of joke until Pare reached into his coat and took out a silver revolver. He demanded money and told the victim “don’t move or I’ll shoot”. The victim refused and ran out of his apartment into the courtyard area of the apartment complex.
Pare chased him into the courtyard and began waiving a gun at other neighbors that were attending a party in the complex courtyard; those people also became victims at this point. The suspect demanded money from those victims then struck a 32 year-old man in the head with a gun. The original victim, the man who ran out of his apartment, grabbed a bat and hit the suspect, causing him to drop two guns he had in his possession. Other neighbors and party-goers then jumped Pare, striking him a number of times with a bat and a 2x4. Sometime during this incident someone called the police.
Justin James Pare’s mask came off as he was being struck by those in the courtyard and made his way into the parking lot. He fled in a 2007 Dodge Nitro which was located by patrol officers and the Phoenix Police Air Support Unit. Pare was taken into custody in a parking lot and then transported to John C. Lincoln hospital due to injuries he sustained in the failed robbery attempt; a skull fracture and severe injury to his nose. Three victims sustained minor injuries during this incident.
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