Man arrested in Globe for 2013 murder of Phoenix security guard, PD says

The Brief

  • An arrest has been made in the November 2013 fatal shooting of 59-year-old security guard Jeffrey Bellemare in Phoenix.
  • Police took 43-year-old Joe Gerardo into custody in Globe on Nov. 3 and booked him into jail on a first-degree murder charge.
  • Investigators have not disclosed a motive or specified the new information that broke the cold case after 13 years.

PHOENIX – An arrest has been made in the November 2013 murder of 59-year-old Jeffrey Bellemare, the Phoenix Police Department said.

The backstory:

On Friday, Nov. 29, 2013 at around 1:30 a.m., Bellemare was shot and killed while on the job, working as an unarmed, uniformed security guard at Graybriar Apartments near 55th Avenue and Indian School Road.…

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