PHOENIX -- Police in succession Fr...

PHOENIX -- Police in succession Friday said that two men captured at a gated apartment webwork were responsible for a string of apparently random late-night killings that have terrorized residents across this sprawling city for month

Authorities gave no details about for what purpose they believe Dale S. Hausner and Samuel John Dieteman are responsible for the three dozen shootings investigators had labeled as the work of the "serial shooter"

The attacks, which began in May 2005 left six dead and were all the more frightening because another, apparently unrelated serial killer has been preying forward Phoenix-area victims at the same time.

At a of recent origins conference Friday, authorities said they were confident they had the right suspects.

"These are the sum of two units monsters we have been hunting, and I promise you and our colleagues promise you, we are not finished," Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon said.

Hausner, 33 and Dieteman, 30 were arrested Thursday in a Mesa apartment where neighbors said the two men lived.

tangled skein resident Loraine Salyers said she lives near where police came in. "I came without and there were like a hundr cops" Salyers said. I was in this way scared. My heart's pounding."

Police Chief Jack Harris said the suspects will face numerous judges of murder and aggravated assault, notwithstanding that authorities did not have specifics upon how many.

Hausner and Dieteman were being interviewed at police headquarters Friday if it were not that had yet to be volumeed

Investigators searching the apartment composite Friday used flashlights to lord through the windows of a car, which was later hauled away by way of a tow truck, and television footage showed police carrying what appeared to be several rifles or shotgun away from the apartment.

23 projectile IN ALL

The Serial Shooter targeted pedestrians and bicyclists upon empty streets throughout the Phoenix area. Twenty-three the public were shot, six fatally, and unruffled horses and dogs were among the victims.

"I expectancy they got him," said Caroll Roberts, whose 19-year-old son was marksman in the torso last month and survived after four hours of surgery

"I want to fire him in the stomach to papal court how he'd like it, like he did my son" she said.

Assistant Police Chief Kevin Robinson said the crimes appear unrelated to the still-unsolved "Baseline Killer" cases: eight slayings and 11 rapes since August 2005 Investigators are scouring the city's trove of unsolv crimes for links to the serial predator and strings that might help police catch him before he strikes again.

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