At first, police were singing one tune that 5 murders weren’t the work of a violent serial killer. Now though police are sounding a potential alarm following 5 different murders since July all involving men. Cops say that since July, 5 men one white and all the rest Latino, have been killed in the area while in some form walking alone at night time.
A map of the crime scenes. (Stockton Police Department)
“We have a series of homicides that we believe are interconnected,” McFadden said at a Friday press conference, per SFGate. “By definition, you could probably very well call this serial killings.”
They are 54-year-old Lorenzo Lopez who was shot just north of downtown before 2am. A 52-year-old was fatally shot around 4:30am on Sept. 21, a 21-year-old was shot around 6:40am on Aug. 30, 43-year-old Salvador William Dudeby Jr. was shot in a parking lot on the evening of Aug. 11, and 35-year-old Paul Alexander Yaw was fatally shot in a park just after midnight on July 8, according to reports. Police admitted that all of the murders occurred just outside of the direct view of security cameras — though a brief image of a person of interest has been captured.