{"id":129522,"date":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:47:12","slug":"tucson-trucker-sentenced-for-boss-attempted-murder-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/129522\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucson trucker sentenced for boss&#8217; attempted murder in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/B9D79C5CE200EA33E27BB4ABD6A584CE.jpg\" alt=\"(previous report): Man accused of trying to shoot his boss\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-fa1f2118=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A Tucson truck driver who authorities say drove to Phoenix to kill his boss has been sentenced to prison.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The Maricopa County Attorney&#8217;s Office says 34-year-old Zane Hammond received 29 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">On Nov. 1, 2023, police say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/news\/tucson-man-drove-up-to-phoenix-tried-to-shoot-his-coworker-police\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Hammond walked into his boss&#8217; office at United Freight Service armed with a shotgun and fired at him<\/strong><\/a> but missed when the victim flipped his desk and took cover. Hammond then turned the gun on the company&#8217;s vice president, who was also inside the office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;In a decisive and heroic act, the vice president tackled Hammond, disarmed him, and held him in a chokehold until Phoenix Police arrived,&#8221; MCAO said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">During Hammond&#8217;s initial court appearance, prosecutors said he quit his job as a truck driver, got drunk, and drove to Phoenix. They said he was angry, believing he had been poorly treated by management and customers, and went looking for revenge.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">&#8220;He drove to Phoenix with a shotgun and a mission to kill. That\u2019s not rage, that\u2019s premeditation,&#8221; Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell. &#8220;Thanks to sheer bravery, no one died. Now, he will spend nearly three decades in prison, where he belongs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Zane-Hammond.jpg\" alt=\"Zane Hammond\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Court documents obtained by FOX 10 showed Hammon had been repeatedly reprimanded at work for his personal hygiene and poor driving.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/pima-county\/tucson\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tucson<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A Tucson truck driver who authorities say drove to Phoenix to kill his boss has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,28516,17741,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-129522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-pima-county","16":"tag-tucson","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114994167450176194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}