43 year old Wesley Brownlee,
who is a Stockton resident,
is the suspect in these killings.
He'll be arraigned in court on Tuesday.
At the time of his arrest
on Saturday at 2:00 AM,
Stockton police say that
they found a gun in his car.
We watched this patterns and
determined early this morning.
He was on a mission to kill.
He was out hunting.
The deadly shootings began in
April last year in Oakland.
Police say that the suspect shot and
killed 39 year old Juan Vasquez Serrano
and then six days later the shooting
of a homeless woman in Stockton.
She survived. Then this summer,
five more victims in Stockton,
most of them Hispanic men,
starting on July 8th with the
killing of 35 year old Paul Yaw to
September 27th with the shooting
death of Lawrence Lopez senior.
And we're learning new details tonight,
including that investigators have connected.
All of the attacks to a single gun.
Our ABC 10s van two looked into the
43 year olds passed and discovers
another disturbing pattern.
Van
Well, Luke police say Brownlee had
a criminal history with at least
four cases in San Joaquin County,
many of them traffic infractions.
But Luke there are more concerning patterns.
All of the known killings were within 2 miles
of the addresses associated with Brownlee,
three of them with hundreds of feet.
And we spoke to neighbors
tonight left rattled.
Now connecting all of the dots.
Is suspected killer next door.
It's kind of crazy,
you know, it was that close.
Jesse Yvonne Joe is still reeling
after realizing he's locked eyes
with Wesley Brownlee before he's
the police's prime suspect in the
Stockton Serial Killer investigation.
Didn't really interact with them very much.
Just seeing him walking past where I
was outside didn't say anything to me,
really just walked by and head nod sort
of deal and just kept, you know, going. He
says he saw Brownlee next door.
A couple of times,
months before his other neighbor
was killed hundreds of feet away
in the Meridian Point apartment
complex parking lot in August,
Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez was
one of the serial killers victims,
Public records show.
Addresses associated with Brownlee
and his relatives are very close
to the killings that police say
are interconnected by Ballistics.
This map shows those six killings in
red and when we overlay addresses
associated with Brownlee and blue.
Three of them are within several
feet of these homicides.
All of them are within 2 miles
of these addresses he
was on a mission to kill.
He was out hunting.
This video, widely circulated
of a person of interest,
was taken at the Pacific Point Apartments,
where one of Brown Lee's
relatives apparently lived.
Just around the corner from here
was where serial killer victim
Juan Cruz was gunned down on
Manchester Ave in September.
I I wake up around 4:00 in the morning,
you know, and I was always,
like, afraid, you know?
Neighbor Louise Cruz says with an
arrest made, he can breathe easier.
It's kind of relief that he got. Already.
Well, Luke, a lot of people breathing
a sigh of relief relief today
police were even sharing photos of
people who had sent them flowers
and cards just to really thank them
for making an arrest in this case.
Yeah, relief is a word
that we've heard a lot.
In the last 24 hours.
There was talk that a case in
Chicago could be connected
with these serial killings.
Yes. So the Stockton Police
Department had been in talks with the
Chicago Police Department in their
case called the Duck Walker Case.
But so far the update there is
that police have ruled out any
connection between the Stockton.
And Chicago cases. OK.
And so now Brownlee is a suspect
charged in connection with
the Stockton serial killings.
Has he been charged?
Yes. So he is booked in the
county jail on open charges,
including a lot of weapons charges
and even a felony murder charge.
So he will be due on court on Tuesday.
And he is being held without bail.
Luke. All right. So ABC 10s Van 2,
thank you for your reporting
on a Stockton tonight.