Man Arrested In Family Deaths
Victims Are His Mother, 14-Year-Old Nephew, Police Say
POSTED: 10:42 pm MST June 20,
2009
UPDATED: 5:23 pm MST June 22,
2009
PHOENIX -- Detectives announced Monday that they have arrested a man in connection with the weekend deaths of his mother and nephew.Erick Lampert, 35, was detained by Tempe police and arrested by Phoenix police detectives in the 8600 block of South River in Tempe.Tempe officers said a caller tipped them off to a suspicious person on the property.Police found the body of Lampert's nephew in a trash bin hours after they began investigating his grandmother's death Saturday at their Sunnyslope home.Sheila Lampert, 61, and her grandson, Loggan Lampert, 14, suffered blunt force trauma to the head, Holmes said.Late Saturday night, police detectives obtained a search warrant for the home near the intersection of Third and Dunlap avenues.After family members assisted in removing two large dogs from the rear yard, the search revealed Loggan Lampert's body, Holmes said.The boy's 9-year-old sister told police that Lampert hit her brother Loggan after the two got into an argument in the grandmother's home on Saturday, Holmes said.The girl ran to her mother's nearby home because she was scared, but later called Loggan, who said everything was OK, Homes said.A couple hours later, Sheila Lampert didn't show up to pick up her daughter from work. Her daughter got a ride from a friend, went to her mother's home and found her dead in the bedroom with head injuries.
Police also said they have come out to the house on previous occasions and some of the prior problems do include domestic issues.Sheila Lampert worked at the Arizona Humane Society. In a statement, the society said "she worked in the organization's Second Chance Animal Hospital™ for many years and then moved into the alternative placement department, where she had a passion for fostering kittens and dogs back to health.""In recent years, Sheila returned to Second Chance where she again worked as a veterinary technician," according to the statement."We will miss her warm and caring nurture, and the animals in our care have certainly lost a compassionate champion," said Guy Collison, executive director of the AHS.Family friend Jose Morales called Loggan "a very nice kid (who was) very polite and always smiling."Reporters Jeff Butera and Jennifer Parks contributed to this story.
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