Dale Hausner
Live from the courtroom: Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner testified this morning that he sawed a .22 caliber rifle in half, and then dumped the halves in different cities in 2005. This is a key part of the case because authorities have never been able to find the .22 caliber gun that Hausner is accused of using to kill numerous people in 2005.
The way Hausner told the story, he purchased the gun at a pawn shop in May 2005. But after taking it shooting it in the desert, he found it jammed frequently. He tried to return it to the pawn shop, but the shop refused to take it, citing a no-refund policy.
When he couldn’t return the rifle, he decided to cut the gun in half to dispose of it. “I took it to my brother Jeff’s house and sawed it in half so that nobody could take it and shoot somebody and then leave it somewhere,” Hausner testified.
Hausner then drove the pieces elsewhere in the Valley. “I threw half away in Phoenix and half away in Mesa,” he said.
Hausner is accused of using a .22 caliber rifle to kill numerous people in 2005. Authorities then say he switched to using a shotgun to continue the killing spree in 2006. Shotguns were recovered from Hausner’s Mesa apartment at the time of his arrest, but authorities have never been able to locate the rifle.