Yuma shooting spree leaves 6 dead, including gunman Carey Hal Dyess

(CBS/AP) YUMA, Ariz. - The shooting rampage of 73-year-old Carey Hal Dyess shooting rampage in towns near the Arizona border left six people dead Thursday, including the suspect and the attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce.

Police said Dyess also wounded one person in the shootings around Yuma, a city of about 91,000, before he was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound nearly six hours after the first shots were fired.

The lawyer was killed while packing up his office on his last day of work.

"This is not a random act," Police Chief Jerry Geier said. "These victims were targeted."

"We are looking at associations. We believe they are known to each other."" said Capt. Eben Bratcher with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office according to CBS affiliate KSWT.

Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden said the first shooting was reported shortly after 5 a.m. in Wellton, about 25 miles east of Yuma. The woman was in critical condition at a Phoenix hospital.

He said Dyess then fatally shot four people around town before driving to Yuma and killing prominent attorney Jerrold Shelley at about 9:20 a.m. The bodies in Wellton were found between 8:20 and 9:45 a.m.

Police believe Dyess drove back toward Wellton, pulled over and fatally shot himself. His body was found at 10:47 a.m. inside a vehicle.

Neither police nor the sheriff would identify the other four dead.

Shelley was killed in his downtown law office. Shelley represented Dyess' ex-wife in their 2006 divorce, which was Dyess' fifth.

Shelley also was one of the lawyers representing seven young men - three sets of brothers - who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson after accusing a priest of repeatedly raping them when they were children.

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