But Daniel Machuca and Gustavo Carrillo, detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, wanted to ask Walker about another body. Walker’s alleged victims, like him, were among the roughly 65,000 people in Los Angeles County who have no home or exist precariously on the line between housed and unsheltered. Amid a startling overall rise in homicides in Los Angeles County over the last year, killings of homeless people have surged most dramatically. One Saturday in 2019, her sister spotted her beneath a bridge in downtown Los Angeles. County officials helped him find an apartment in South Los Angeles, a probation officer wrote in a report filed in court.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 28, 2021 12:02 UTC