Neighbors in the family-oriented, 250-unit complex, near 17th Avenue and Hazelwood Street, said the shooter often argued with pet owners about barking dogs and left written notes complaining about the noise. "He didn't want noise," neighbor and dog owner Denise Lopez said. "
The dogs were waking him up. He always used to complain."
What is known, according to police, is that Michael Dante Guzzo took his pump-action shotgun and, at about 9a.m. Saturday, fatally shot his next-door neighbors: Bruce Moore, 66; his daughter, Renee, 36; her husband, Michael, 42, who took his wife's last name; their son, Shannon, 17; and two dogs.
Guzzo then began walking to a unit across the courtyard, where a Chihuahua and pit bull had started barking at the gunfire, the dogs' owner said.
Guzzo banged and kicked the front door, said Libni, who lives at the unit and declined to provide a last name. Libni's girlfriend had just left the shower and was trying to open the door and hold a towel around herself at the same time, he said, but he sent her upstairs to be with the two children.
"That's when he
fired through the door," said Libni, who was standing to the side at the time.
Guzzo then began to walk away as Libni raced up to the second floor, retrieved his gun and opened a window, he said. "A man's got to protect his family," Libni said. At the sound of the window opening, Guzzo raised the shotgun and fired, shattering the glass, Libni said. He said he had just ducked.
Guzzo then walked across the courtyard to his unit, went inside and fatally shot himself, police said.
A neighbor, Charise, 42, said that
Renee Moore had five dogs, all small breeds. She had just gotten several out of quarantine. They had been quarantined after she and her husband moved to Phoenix from China, she said.
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