A man armed with an “AK-47 style rifle” allegedly fired a barrage of bullets at a woman at an Arizona bus stop, killing her before driving off, getting arrested nearby and confessing to police, saying she was armed even though she didn’t have a weapon and the whole thing was caught on camera.
Andrew Rada, 44, faces a first-degree murder charge in the killing of Michelle Flippin, 52, police said.
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She was killed around 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday at a gas station in Mesa, about 20 miles east of Phoenix, according to a probable cause statement that outlines the allegations.
The Mesa Police Department received multiple 911 calls at 7:37 a.m. about a man firing an “AK-47 style rifle” from the gas station parking lot and a dead woman covered in blood, the document said.
“There was nothing you could do to save the lady. She was clearly deceased,” a witness told local NBC affiliate KPNX .
Police found Flippin unresponsive near a bus stop just south of the gas station, where she was declared dead from multiple gunshot wounds to numerous parts of her body, authorities said.