The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is assisting Arizona Department of Public Safety and other local agencies in the search for a homicide suspect from an incident in the Prescott area.
The search area is currently in a remote area northeast of Rimrock in the Montezuma Well area.
The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 6 feet tall, wearing a black or blue shirt, black shorts and possibly black gloves. He is considered armed and dangerous.
No photo nor name of the suspect has been provided.
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For residents and motorists in this area please do not approach suspect. Do not pick up hitchhikers. Call 911 if you see a suspect matching this description.
Please stay out of the area.
Note, the cadre of YCSO units driving with lights and sirens in local communities are Special Weapons and Tactics reams. They will become part of the search effort.
A Code Red, emergency notification, has been issued for the general search area.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet." In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
