(CNN) When New York police officers tracked down a Florida man wanted in connection with a murder in Miami Beach, they had no idea they may have stopped a potential serial killer. Transit police found Nicholas Brent Gibson, 32, coming off of a subway train Sunday and arrested him. During questioning, police said, Gibson confessed to killing 77-year-old Erik Stocker in Miami Beach in April, and then allegedly told police he'd killed six other people in Florida, Georgia and California. CNN reached out to a public defender assigned to Gibson, but did not immediately hear back. Gibson has been wanted by the US Marshals Service since 2016 for failing to register as a sex offender in multiple states over the years.

Source: CNN May 09, 2019 17:33 UTC