Suspected Killer of Homeless in Two Cities Arrested in Washington D.C.
An intense search across New York City and Washington D.C. has a resulted in the arrest of an unidentified suspect for the shooting of five homeless men, two of whom were killed.
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A suspect in a series of shootings this month targeting homeless men in New York and Washington D.C., shooting at least five and killing two, has been arrested by the nation’s capital’s own Metropolitan Police Department, reports the New York Times. Authorities said the man shot three men sleeping outdoors in Washington between March 3 and March 9, and two men in Lower Manhattan on Saturday. One victim in each city died. Authorities said they connected the cases after a police captain investigating the killing of a homeless man in Washington saw a photo on social media of the suspect in the New York attacks. Ballistics analysis confirmed on Sunday that the same gun was used in all five shootings, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In each of the shootings, a lone gunman dressed in dark clothing targeted homeless men between midnight and dawn. The first killing was March 9 on New York Avenue NE in Washington, when a man was fatally shot and stabbed and his tent set on fire. The police had offered $70,000 for information that led to an arrest and conviction. In interviews in both cities, several homeless people said they were unnerved by the attacks, but not enough to move indoors.
