The 52-unit complex on East Lind Road where three people were killed by a man being evicted has changed hands three times in the last four years: for $1.5 million in 2018; $2.3 million in 2019 and $3.6 million in 2021 when it was purchased by self-described apartment flipper Kevin Easterly of San Diego.
It’s one of five ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ properties now owned in whole or in part by Easterly, who made headlines earlier this year when he raised rents more than 50% at a ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ senior citizens complex, forcing out those who couldn’t afford to stay.
The shooting occurred three weeks after Easterly hired a Tempe-based property management company to oversee all five of his ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ properties, said Jeffrey Hanrath of Valley Income Properties, the management firm now in charge.
Hanrath said the property manager who died in the shooting, Angela Fox-Heath, 28, was his employee. Workers throughout the company are reeling, he said.
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“I have 120 employees and a dozen managers, and they are all shook up,†Hanrath said. Also killed were Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay and a man in a neighboring apartment, Elijah Miranda, 25.
Hanrath said the shooter, identified by police as Gavin Lee Stansell, had “made some threatening comments†to other residents. “Obviously he wasn’t well. He had problems.â€
Stansell committed suicide after the shootings, police said.
Hanrath said the company is contemplating a new policy that would require property managers to keep their distance when an eviction is in progress.
The Lind Road complex is used for “subsidized low-income housing†according to Pima County property records.
Contact reporter Carol Ann Alaimo at 573-4138 or calaimo@tucson.com. On Twitter: @AZStarConsumer
California investor buys ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ seniors complex, raises rents by 50%
