“If it sounds like a maniac is on the loose in San Diego, so be it: a maniac is on the loose in San Diego,” read a San Diego Union-Tribune editorial. San Diego police have arrested a suspect in the string of homicides and violent attacks against homeless people – apparently ending a dramatic manhunt that took place amid fears of a serial killer on the loose. An hour later police found a third homeless man, Shawn Longley, 41, also bleeding from his upper torso. It was unclear whether Padgett was also suspected of a series of separate attacks against sleeping homeless people in June. On Wednesday a fourth homeless man was burned and gravely injured while sleeping on a downtown walkway.

Source: The Guardian July 08, 2016 02:37 UTC