Wesley Brownlee was arrested while he was allegedly out hunting for his next victim. He was dressed all in black, had a mask hung around his neck, and was armed with a gun. Police are sure they’ve stopped another killing from happening.
Investigators began watching the suspect after receiving tips and stopped him in a car at about 2 a.m. in the Central Valley city, where five of the shootings took place, Police Chief Stanley McFadden said at a news conference.
Police have been looking for the “Stockton Serial Killer” for a while now. He is suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in shootings in Stockton, California.
Juan Vasquez Serrano, 39, was killed in Oakland on April 10, 2021, and Natasha LaTour, 46, was shot in Stockton on April 16 of that year but survived. The five men killed in Stockton this year were Paul Yaw, 35, who died July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, who died Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, who died Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, who died Sept. 21; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54, who died Sept. 27.
Investigators have received tons of tips and received some that lead to them watching Brownlee as a suspect.
“Based on tips coming into the department and Stockton Crime Stoppers, we were able to zero in on a possible suspect,” McFadden said. “Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving. We watched his patterns and determined early this morning, he was on a mission to kill.”
While being watched investigators noticed that Brownlee showed “threatening behavior.”
McFadden added that Brownlee was detained after engaging in what appeared to be threatening behavior, including going to parks and dark places, stopping and looking around before driving on.
The Stockton police chief made sure to thank “various local, state and federal agencies that took part in the investigation, including the FBI, U.S. Marshals and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.”
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