Warning: this is disturbing.
Stolen elections have deadly consequences.
In Katie Hobbs’ Arizona, a man in a homeless camp in Phoenix referred to as “The Zone” was placed in a dumpster and burned alive.
Two men are in custody in connection with the murder, according to AZ Family. The suspects have been identified as Larry D. Scott, 22, and Isaiah M. Baskin, 18.
Kari Lake, the duly elected Governor of Arizona, tweeted about the horrible and tragic incident.
First Responders won’t even go into “The Zone” because it is so dangerous:
From AZ Family:
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — Two men are in custody in connection with a body that was found burned to death in a dumpster near downtown Phoenix. The suspects have been identified as Larry D. Scott, 22, and Isaiah M. Baskin, 18.
Tuesday morning, police were called to the area of 11th Avenue and Madison Street, known as “The Zone,” where they found a man’s burned body in a dumpster. Checking area surveillance cameras, detectives saw two men push a grocery cart to the dumpster around 2 a.m. that morning. The video shows the men struggle to lift the cart and dump it into the dumpster. A third person is then seen setting the dumpster on fire.
According to court documents, one of the three men, later identified as Baskin, was wearing unique clothing in the video and was found later that day watching the crime scene from across the street. Police say that’s where Baskin and Scott were arrested.
During an interview with investigators, Baskin reportedly admitted being involved in the crime. Per court documents, he said Scott and the third man beat the victim, then wrapped him in trash bags and put him in the grocery cart. Baskin then reportedly told investigators he helped Scott lift the cart into the dumpster.
According to the report, Baskin said he could still hear the victim moaning before he handed over a lighter that his friend used to set the dumpster on fire. He reportedly told investigators that the third man then gathered firewood to throw into the dumpster. Documents say the three men watched the fire burn for up to 20 minutes and that during that time, Baskin could hear banging noises coming from the dumpster that he believed was the victim.
Scott was previously one of several suspects arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 38-year-old woman outside a McDonald’s restaurant near 19th Avenue and Bell Road in April 2020. Court documents from Scott’s 2020 arrest say he and the other suspects were “driving around, looking for homeless people to shoot.” It’s currently unclear what developed in the case since then or why he was released from custody.
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, who stole the election from Mark Finchem, weighed in after the latest tragedy in “The Zone”, by calling the area “not great” and then recommending a good sandwich shop in the area.
“Go buy a sandwich!”
Unreal.
From AZ Free News:
Secretary of State Adrian Fontes weighed in after the latest tragedy to hit The Zone, a dead man burned in a dumpster, by calling the area “not great” and recommending his favorite lunch order from a local sandwich shop.
“I had lunch at the Old Station today with a couple people from the office. Things are not great nearby, but the restaurant itself was pretty good,” said Fontes. “#6 Double meat. Diet Coke. Chips. Give them some love. Go buy a sandwich!”The homeless encampment, nicknamed “The Zone,” covers an area spanning several miles in downtown Phoenix that has made headlines nationwide over the past year.
The sandwich shop, Old Station, resides in the heart of The Zone. Fontes retweeted an interview snippet from “The Gaydos and Chad Show” featuring the shop owner, Joe Faillace, discussing the dire state of the community due to the ongoing homeless crisis. Hours before Fontes sent that tweet, and likely around the same time Fontes was eating his sandwich, first responders were handling the latest dead body to be discovered in The Zone — a man thrown into a dumpster and burned.
The business owner whose property abutted the dumpster, Angie Ojile, told AZ Free News that she doesn’t know why the city or county isn’t taking a different approach with The Zone, considering the daily patterns of crime and death.
“It’s hard to imagine: a man found in this dumpster, burned,” said Ojile. “It’s like — are we invisible? They say they care, but what I see is indifference.”Where a memorial may have been laid for the life lost, the city brought another dumpster instead. Ojile said that the residents almost mistook it for the same dumpster where the man was found.
“Instead of any kind of memorial — being that there was a burned body thrown in there — the city’s display of compassion is to replace it with another beat up, burnt-out dumpster with similar graffiti that most swear was the same. I can’t imagine that it was,” said Ojile.
As AZ Free News reported earlier this month, The Zone has become so overridden with crime that residents and business owners say that their calls to police go unanswered or unheeded. The Zone lies only around three blocks from the Phoenix Police Department headquarters: just over half a mile.
In the last year, there were over 700 homeless deaths in The Zone. One of those deaths was that of a premature baby, approximately 20 to 24 weeks old, whose remains were discovered burned by a dumpster just weeks before Thanksgiving. Several locals told AZ Free News they believed that the dumpster from that tragedy was the same one in which this most recent death occurred. Whether they were the same dumpster is unclear.
“If they put a memorial up for every person that’s died in The Zone, it would look more like a graveyard than an industrial and residential district,” said Ojile.
This is “The Zone”:
Arizona Daily also reported the incident:
Phoenix homicide detectives are seeking information about another deadly incident that occurred this week in Phoenix’s homeless encampment called “The Zone.”
On March 21, a man was burned alive after at least two suspects placed his body in a dumpster and lit him on fire. According to sources, his moans could be heard by homeless individuals who occupy “The Zone,” but fear of reprisal stopped any attempts to intervene.
On Wednesday, March 22, Phoenix officers responded to a shooting call at about 8:11 p.m. When officers got to the scene, they contacted the 911 caller who had obvious injuries to his head. The man told officers he was hit in the head with a gun by an unknown male. The victim also reported that his female friend was shot by the same person that attacked him. Officers checking the area of 800 West Madison Street located the female victim suffering from gunshot wounds.
Officers provided medical aid until Phoenix Fire arrived to take her to a local hospital where she died from her injuries.
The suspect remains outstanding.
