The US office gunman has found dead: police
A US man who shot and killed a call-centre CEO and critically wounded a lawyer at a Phoenix office building, where they were meeting to discuss a contract dispute, has been found dead.
The development ends a nearly 24-hour manhunt that had area residents on edge.
A landscaper found the body of Arthur Douglas Harmon among some bushes in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.
Harmon, 70, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
A handgun was found near his body, and a rented Kia Optima sedan that he drove from Wednesday's shooting scene was located in a nearby parking lot.
Authorities had been searching for Harmon since Wednesday morning, when they say he drew a gun and shot two men at the end of a mediation session at a north-central Phoenix office building.
Steve Singer, 48, died hours later.
The law firm that employs Mark Hummels, 43, said on Thursday he is on life support and isn't expected to survive.
A 32-year-old woman also was shot, but her injuries were not life-threatening.
"We believe the two men were the targets," Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson said.
"It was not a random shooting."
Harmon also fired at someone who tried to follow him to get his licence plate number, authorities said.
Singer was the CEO of Scottsdale-based Fusion Contact Centers LLC, which had hired Harmon to refurbish office cubicles at two call centres in California.
According to court documents, Harmon was scheduled to go to a law office in the building where the shooting took place for a settlement conference in a lawsuit he filed against Fusion in April.
Fusion said Harmon was paid nearly $US30,000 ($A28,900) under the $US47,000 contract.
But the company asked him to repay much of the money when it discovered the cubicles could not be
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