Early warning?

Attorney says police were told gunman’s name early in the spree.

The divorce attorney for Connie Jones, the ex-wife of a man suspected of killing six people in the Scottsdale area before turning the gun on himself, says she told police about Dwight Lamon Jones two days before officers started tailing him.

Elizabeth Feldman said Tuesday that she spoke to police after a shooting June 1 that killed two people at her office. Police asked her about any of her practice’s cases that could be connected to Dr. Steven Pitt, who was the first victim in the spree. She immediately thought of Dwight Jones.

“They asked me a couple of questions — were there any arguments in the office, all the standard things that you see on TV,” Feldman said. “And they asked me about any cases connected to Dr. Pitt. The only one I had had that there was any violence was Dwight, so that’s when I mentioned it.”

Feldman, Connie Jones and Jones’ husband spoke with reporters for the first time Tuesday in Flagstaff.

Reached after the press conference, Scottsdale Police Spokesman Kevin Watts declined to comment on when police first became aware of Dwight Jones as a suspect, saying the investigation continues and that the “piecemeal release of information at this point only leads to false conclusion and speculation.”

Authorities believe Dwight Jones killed six people over four days as revenge for a marriage gone bad and for the loss of a now-grown child, who was taken away from him because of his violent behavior. At the center of the 56year-old’s anger, apparently, was a messy divorce that took seven years to finalize.

Connie Jones hadn’t heard from her ex-husband in years. But she knew that one day he would come for her.

“I absolutely think he was looking for us,” she said after the press conference Tuesday.

During that search, Dwight Jones killed six people, a psychiatrist who diagnosed his mental illness, two employees in the office of his wife’s divorce attorney, a psychologist who sublet space from his son’s therapist and two people in Fountain Hills that he knew through his fondness of tennis.

Then, he took his own life. Connie Jones’ current husband, Rick Anglin, looked on Dwight Jones’ death as an end, “so that our family can get back to some semblance of normal life. We’d like to find out what life is like without security precautions.”

Anglin, a former police detective who worked as a private detective for Connie Jones during her divorce proceedings, couldn’t say the last time he or Connie had seen Dwight Jones.

But they knew they were afraid. Everything was advanced planning, he said, even going to the movies, where they would sit in the back row to make an easy escape.

“It became a way of life to have a different route to work every day,” Anglin said.

Their security measures included using safe houses, rental cars and trained attack dogs. They took security with them to the grocery store.

Connie Jones, a radiologist, learned to use firearms. She learned defensive driving, waiting for the day.

“We were certain she was going to be the one to have this final standoff,” Anglin said.

When it happened, she and Anglin were on vacation, on a cruise. On Friday, June 1, they heard of the May 31 death of Pitt, the forensic psychiatrist, but they didn’t immediately associate it with Dwight Jones.

On Saturday morning, June 2, when they learned about the two killings at Elizabeth Feldman’s law office, Anglin said, “I knew immediately.”

And he said he recognized the office where psychologist Marshall Levine was killed because he had been there many times. So had Dwight Jones. Anglin called police that night.

“I also told them where he was at. I knew where he was because he was staying at the same extended-stay hotel for nine years,” he said.

Police tracked him to that hotel, where he ended his life on Monday morning, June 4, as officers closed in.