A Tucson truck driver has been sentenced to 29 years in prison for attempting to kill his former employers.
The former employee, Zane James Hammond, 34, drove to the Phoenix headquarters of his former employer and fired a shotgun at the president and vice president.
Hammond pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder in late July, according to court documents.
Zane James Hammond
In the attack, Hammond drove to Phoenix and headed into the president’s office of his former company armed with a shotgun.
He fired at both the president and the vice president, according to a news release from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
The company president was able to flip his desk and take cover. He was not wounded, the release said.
The vice president tackled Hammond and was able to disarm him. He held Hammond in a chokehold until police arrived, the release said.
Hammond quit suddenly over a “minor customer dispute,” the release said. He then confronted the company’s leadership.
“He drove to Phoenix with a shotgun and a mission to kill,” Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said in a written statement.
Surveillance video captured an armed attack on employees at the Phoenix offices of a trucking company. Zane James Hammond, of Tucson, has been sentenced to 29 years in prison for the attack.
“That’s not rage, that’s premeditation. Thanks to sheer bravery, no one died,” Mitchell said. “Now, he will spend nearly three decades in prison, where he belongs.”
