The nude body of a woman was found hanging from a tree in the San Xavier district of the Tohono O’odham reservation in Pima County Saturday afternoon. The FBI and reservation police are investigating.

Investigators believe they know the identity of the woman but are awaiting confirmation from relatives before releasing it, said Tohono O’odham Police Department Chief Richard Saunders.

The woman, possibly in her 30s, had a gunshot wound, but that does not appear to be what killed her, said Deborah McCarley, an FBI spokeswoman in Phoenix.

A passerby found the body about noon Saturday near South Mission Road and called the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, which notified the Tohono O’odham Police Department. The woman’s body was suspended in the tree with wire, Saunders said, and her death is being investigated as a homicide.

Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who trotted out an aide dressed as an alien 10 years ago to spoof the frenzy surrounding mysterious lights in the Phoenix sky, now says the lights were actually an alien spacecraft.

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The Grand Canyon Skywalk is scheduled to open tomorrow. Fees are $25 per person.

David Garvin, an ex-marine who lived in Bullhead City for a few years, entered DeMarco’s Pizzeria and opened fire killing an employee. He was then confronted outside by two unarmed volunteer police officers. He opened fire and killed them both before being killed himself by police.

Detectives say Garvin had a beef with the restaurant’s bartender and went in armed with 3 guns, knives and nearly 100 rounds of ammunition.

After leaving the restaurant, surveillance video shows Garvin then chasing after 2 volunteer New York police officers who confronted him.

In the video you can see the suspect shooting and killing an unarmed officer as he ducks for cover.

Police say the second officer was shot and killed, execution style.

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