This is the kind of guy the three strikes law was written for. Still, hard to see how it happened, since as a felon it is illegal for him to have a gun.The gunman who cut a bloody swath through a Phoenix suburb Wednesday morning, shooting six people in Mesa, Ariz., was an ex-convict who had most recently spent more than seven years in prison for attempted assault, police announced Wednesday.
Police identified the suspect as 41-year-old Ryan Giroux, who was released from an Arizona prison in October 2013.
Giroux has a lengthy criminal history that includes convictions for assault in Arizona and Los Angeles County, Calif., court records show. He has landed in state prison three separate times since 1994.
