According to report, the police chief said that a surveillance team followed the suspected Stockton serial killer while he was driving around and “determined early this morning that he was out looking to kill, he was hunting.”
Recent
news revealed that police have arrested the suspected Stockton serial killer
and said officers apprehended him with a mask around his neck as he “was out
looking to kill.”
Stockton
Police Chief Stanley McFadden said that Wesley Brownlee was taken into custody
in the California city following community tips and “old-fashioned police
work”.
Authorities
say that the 43-year-old suspect is from Stockton and that he was stopped by
officers at around 2am on Saturday in the Village Green Drive area of the city.
Police say
he was found with a mask around his neck and armed with a gun.
“We are
sure we stopped another killing,” Chief McFadden added.
The
suspect will be arraigned Tuesday when authorities will announce charges
against him.
Stockton
Mayor Kevin Lincoln thanked the community for helping the department catch the
suspect.
“Thank you
for everything that you have done. Thank you for stepping up, thank you for
exercising your voice, thank you for submitting the hundreds of tips that have
come in on a daily basis,” he said.
Six men
were shot and killed in darkness in or near the Californian port city of
Stockton since April 2021. One victim was white, but the rest were Hispanic
males.
A seventh
victim – a homeless woman who survived an attack by what is believed to be the
same perpetrator in April of last year.
“I’ve had
people tell me, ‘I’m not leaving my house,’” Tashante McCoy, community activist
and founder of the Owl Movement, previously told The Independent. “My mom
texted today and she said, ‘I’m so glad that I don’t have to go to work at
night anymore.’”
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