Posted on 10/15/2022 5:55:56 PM PDT by Morgana
Police in California say they have caught a suspected serial killer responsible for a handful of murders that have haunted the Stockton and Oakland areas.
Authorities say they apprehended the suspect, identified as Wesley Brownlee, 43, just as he was about to claim another life.
Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden said on Saturday, 'Early this morning he was on a mission to kill, he was out hunting.'
'He was wearing dark clothing and had a mask around his neck. He was also armed with a firearm when he was taken into custody. We are sure we stopped another killing,' he continued.'
Brownlee is suspected to have been terrorizing the community for more than a year.
His first suspected killing occurred last April 21, and his most recent 'hunt' took place less than one month prior to his arrest.
He is now in custody and is scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday afternoon.
McFadden said his officers were able to make a breakthrough in the case because of 'community tips' and 'good old fashioned police work.'
Authorities have so far been able to connect six gun deaths in California cities to a single murderer since the beginning of 2021.
Law enforcement authorities described Brownlee's killing spree as a 'reign of terror.' Just one of his alleged victims survived being shot.
Earlier this month, police released footage of a man they believed to be the Stockton serial killer.
On Saturday, the Stockton police department confirmed to the Daily Mail that they believe the individual in the surveillance footage is the same person who appeared in the video.
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Blacks always used to make jokes about all serial killers being white.
We all know that was crap, and now more and more evidence keeps popping forth.
Oops. He’ll be memory holed like the DC Sniper has been. Or the Vegas sniper for that matter, for different reasons. Some killers are just not convenient and they are buried by the media.
Sgt. Moose is voting democrat, in other words, he’s dead.
Sam Little was the serial killer credited with the most murders. He’s black.
Pretty sure this serial Killer didn’t just start his spree over this year....at 43 he’s been at it for awhile.
I grew up when Alton Coleman was terrorizing people in 1984.
Local media take:
Dont forget the freeway sniper out east killing people from his trunk and the kid with him, were black.
I just remember kevin hart and chapelle embellishing about mass murderers are always white.
SPJNK.
The democrats have been trying to provoke a race war for decades. It seems as though they have managed to stir up enough enmity in blacks against whites to start this kind of wanton killing of people, targeting them based on skin color, the very thing that is condemned when it’s whites targeting blacks.
The big problem I see is that with enough of this kind of activity of a select few, it’s going to become problematic for all blacks, because I foresee a time when there is such animosity that when someone sees a black person, they are going to shoot first and ask questions later. The result will be many blacks being shot and maybe killed solely because of skin color, because of the actions of the few like this guy. Not that whites are going to be hunting them down, like this guy did to whites, but that it’s going to take very little provocative for a white person who is already skittish to take action.
The consequences of waiting to find out if the person is friend or foe is not worth the risk.
I don’t see this ending well unless these kinds of predators are stopped very soon. If that scenario does play out, it’s only going to escalate.
It was mostly Hispanics, or White Hispanic, and then one White guy, so maybe both.
Uh, he’s not a real serial killer. He doesn’t have a middle name.
That sort of thing has been happening for decades around the New Orleans area, it was always kept quiet as a robbery or some other BS they could come up with to cover up the real motive.
Do we really know the true story about the Vegas sniper?
I remember that story, there was another serial killer operating in the same area at the same time wasn’t there?
Disregard last, I was thinking of a guy in Atlanta.
I know that the dems love to pile onto any mass shooting but the one in Vegas they looked the other way. Then there were some odd things about the shooter's travel history and a foreign girlfriend overseas who seemingly knew about it in advance and all of a sudden all the news just shut down and we were told an investigation was underway and a report would be issued. It was; it said basically 'this guy did it and we have no idea why. just a lone nut I guess'. I frankly haven't heard anything since. It's never ever mentioned when the dems grandstand for gun control with a list of mass shootings, it's like it never happened. The most deadly mass shooting in US history and it's like it never happened. And there has to be a reason they want nobody looking at that ever. But no, I have no idea what that reason is or could be. However it does make you wonder.
I bet all the victims are white and the media will never report that inconvienient fact.
No worries Gavin. He’ll be back on the streets by sundown.
He’s black, media didn’t use his middle name so he can’t be a serial killer /s
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