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Minutes after a state police SWAT team arrested Merritt, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey broadcast the news on social media: “We got him!”

The four shootings that police say he committed hit a tour bus, SUV and two cars, all of them on Interstate 10.

Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., waits to make his initial appearance before a judge at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday, September 19, 2015, in Phoenix. Firearms examiners would have test-fired the suspect’s gun and found impressions in the bullet that...