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Phoenix Police Arrest Double Murder Suspect Erick Lampert
This photo was taken as Phoenix Police brought double homicide murder suspect, Erick Lampert, to police headquarters for questioning. Lampert was detained this morning by Tempe police and arrested a short time later by Phoenix police.
Update 06/22/2009
At 9.50 a.m. today, June 22, 2009, double homicide suspect Erick Lampert was detained by Tempe police and arrested by Phoenix police in the area of 8600 S. River in Tempe.
Tempe police had responded to a call regarding a suspicious person on the property. Based on the description provided by Alex Stetson, a dispatcher with Tempe Police Department, officers detained Lampert for positive identification by Phoenix police detectives.
Lampert was brought to Phoenix Police Headquarters for questioning.
Original Information 06/20/2009
The scene was so horrific that even seasoned Phoenix officers found it unusually disturbing. Residents in the area of Hatcher and 3rd Drive in Phoenix reeled in disbelief that 61 year-old Sheila Lampert and her grandson, 14 year-old Loggan Lampert had been murdered. Phoenix Police responded to the home after Sheila Lampert’s body was discovered by her daughter at approximately 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, June 20, 2009. After police obtained a search warrant, Loggan’s body was discovered about five hours later in a trash container in the backyard of the residence. Both Sheila and Loggan had died from blunt force trauma to the head.
As police investigated, they learned that Sheila’s son Erick Lampert, 35, had been on medication for mental illness but apparently had not been taking his medication recently and had fought with his nephew, Loggan, about noon on Saturday. Both Sheila and Loggan’s 9 year-old sister were present during the altercation. The little girl was so frightened that she ran to her mother’s house nearby then, according to Phoenix police spokesperson James Holmes, talked with Loggan on the phone about 2 p.m. and thought that everything seemed fine.