After a citywide manhunt, police in Mesa, Arizona, have arrested a man they say shot dead one person and wounded another five.
Police at Arizona State University said via Twitter that Mesa police had arrested the suspect in the shootings. Local television showed aerial video of police moving a handcuffed person into the back of a truck.
Local television channel 12 News reported the shooter was Ryan Giroux, 41, an ex-convict whose distinctive facial tattoos, including symbols used by white supremacist prison gangs, matched police descriptions.
Mesa police had not yet confirmed the arrest or the shooter's identity.
Detective Esteban Flores said the man shot two women and killed a man at a motel at 8.40am on Wednesday. He then shot a man at a nearby restaurant, and carjacked another man at the same location to steal his grey Honda Accord.
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The shooter then broke into a home in another part of the city, shooting a man there, Flores said. Police found another man shot, believed to be a victim of the same shooter, outside an apartment complex in a fourth location.
Media reported entire neighbourhoods were on lockdown as police closed streets and footpaths and searched door to door for the gunman.
The motive for the shootings was unknown.
