It was easily the bloodiest night of the killing spree.
Beginning in Tempe, he worked his way into the heart of Phoenix, passing within sight of the state Capitol, and then cruised back toward the suburbs.
Along the way, authorities say, Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner killed two men and three animals. He also wounded another man, a prostitute and a pair of dogs.
On Thursday, as part of his eight-count murder trial in Maricopa County Superior Court, the Mesa man listened silently as survivors of that night talked about their experiences.
It was just four days after Christmas 2005, and prosecutors say it took Hausner all of three hours to unloose havoc across the Valley.
“I kind of panicked a little bit,” said Clarissa Rowley, a 24-year-old who was working as a prostitute on Van Buren Street in Phoenix when she was shot. “I sort of ran a few steps, then somebody pulled up to the side of the curb and offered to take me to the hospital.”
Rowley was hit with a shotgun blast on her left side while walking the street looking for a client.
She saw the barrel of a shotgun poke out of a car before the blast. Her right hand caught most of the pellets as she tried to block her face from the shot.
Despite subsequent surgeries and medical treatment, she testified, she still has a shotgun pellet lodged in her neck.
Photo by pool photographer. Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner listens as a witness speaks during the opening week of his trial.
