The sentencing phase for Cleophus Cooksey Jr., 43, convicted of murdering eight people in metro Phoenix in 2017, begins Monday, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty.
He was found guilty last week of murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and sexual assault, following a three-week crime spree in 2017 that targeted random individuals, his mother, and stepfather.
Among the victims in Phoenix and nearby Glendale were two men found dead in a parked car, a security guard shot walking to his girlfriend’s flat, and a woman kidnapped, sexually assaulted, her body found in an alley…