Two in Police custody

Phoenix police have two suspects in custody as of this morning in the shooting of police officer David Uribe.

Police early Friday arrested and booked two men on murder counts in the shooting death of a veteran Phoenix police officer. They were taken into custody Thursday after an intensive two-day manhunt ended at a quiet retirement community.

Apparently one of the suspects old roommates provided the two men a place to stay on Wednesday and ultimately dropped the men off at the community where they were found. The ex-roommate of suspect Chris Wilson then tipped the police as to the location of Wilson and the other suspect, Donald Delahanty:

Police were led to the retirement community by Wilson's ex-roommate, Piña said. That man told police he had allowed Wilson and Delahanty to stay at his father's house elsewhere in the Valley on Wednesday and that he had dropped them off at the mobile-home park early Thursday morning.

It's unclear also at this point as to what role a third man may have played on Tuesday: Police also believe that a third man was with Wilson and Delahanty in the car Uribe had pulled over, but his involvement in the slaying remained unclear. The man, identified only as "Johnny," turned himself in Thursday afternoon and was being questioned, Phoenix police Lt. Benny Piña said.

The grand irony in all this, as often is the case when thugs are finally faced-down, is that Wilson (the older of the two suspects) was ultimately fished-out from beneath a trailer by Police dogs and a SWAT team. Big guys with guns are happy to be so when they can ambush unsuspecting cops but they invariably hide like children from the boogeyman when the heat is on. The cop-killer's legacy.