article_snippet: Police later identified the man as Ryan Giroux, a 41-year-old ex-convict who has served three stints in state prison since 1994.
article_snippet: Ryan E. Giroux, the suspect in a Mesa mass shooting that left one person dead, is a former Arizona Department of Corrections inmate with a history of police assaults and illegal drug use.
article_snippet: Ryan E. Giroux served prison terms totaling more than eight years for burglary, theft, attempted aggravated assault and a marijuana violation, the Arizona Department of Corrections said.
article_snippet: Ryan E. Giroux was first incarcerated in 1994 and returned to prison in late 1995 before being released about a year later.
article_snippet: Ryan E. Giroux then returned to prison in mid-2007 before being released in late 2013.
article_snippet: Last year, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge allowed Ryan E. Giroux to remain on probation despite an unspecified probation violation.
article_snippet: A police officer wrote that Giroux 'wants to change A police officer life around.' 
highlights_snippet: Ryan Giroux has been taken into police custody in connection with the fatal shooting of one person and wounding of five others on Wednesday .
  
highlights_snippet: Ryan Giroux was apprehended after police shocked Ryan Giroux with a stun gun on an apartment balcony in Mesa, Arizona .
  
highlights_snippet: Also an ex-convict who has served three stints in state prison since 1994 .
  