Arrest made in San Diego homeless attacks probe

It was not immediately clear if either beating this morning was related to a similar beating in the East Village on Wednesday, a series of assaults on at least a half-dozen transients around Westfield Horton Plaza last month or a spree of attacks around San Diego that left three homeless men dead and a fourth gravely injured.

Police release this composite sketch on July 15, 2016 of a man they believe is responsible for killing three homeless men and attacking another one.

The possible suspect was detained in the vicinity of Laurel and Brant streets in Bankers Hill and was being questioned, but he was not immediately placed under arrest, police said.

“There is no doubt in my mind, this is part of our series”, Nisleit said. “And we had the two cases on July 4 and the additional case on July 6”. San Diego police officers responded and found the bloodied victim with significant trauma to his torso, San Diego police Capt. Dave Nisleit told reporters in a morning briefing.

Arizona police announced Friday the discovery of improvised bombs and several pounds of explosives in the home and auto of a man who traveled to a quiet Nevada town and set off bombs that killed him and showered the.

Police had believed that Padgett was the person videotaped by security cameras while buying gasoline at a convenience store shortly before the burning body of the first victim was found. Detectives remain convinced that the man in the images is the killer, according to Nisleit.

“If it is our guy, we’re going to feel very relieved”, Nisleit told the newspaper.

Last week, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said the suspect’s “evil acts of violence are some of the worst I’ve seen in my 34 years in law enforcement”. “We’ve been working around the clock”.

Friday’s attack would be the fifth in the series that began July 3.

On the morning of July 3, the body of 53-year-old Angelo De Nardo of San Diego was found in an open area off the 2700 block of Morena Boulevard in Bay Park.

Friday’s first attack happened near 13th and A streets. A few hours later, police discovered the body of Shawn Longley, 41, who bled from the upper torso and died.

The brutal attacks have chilled the homeless community in the southern Californian city and put intense pressure on police.

Dionicio Derek Vahidy, 23, died on Sunday in hospital four days after being doused with flammable liquid and set on fire while he was sleeping.