Our entire community
will never quite be the same.
Our sense of normalcy and secury
has been fractured, the mayor
of Davis sharing his thoughts t,
and this morning, residents on .
As Belief have only given a vage
description of the attacker and cannot
tie all of these stabbings toge,
some businesses even keeping thr
doors locked or closing early.
I want to show you a map here.
Monday stabbing happened
to 2nd and L streets.
We brought this to you as
breaking news just 24 hours ago.
All three stabbings happening no
more than two miles apart the ft
last Thursday at Central Park.
And then the second
Saturday at Sycamore Park,
community members remembering the victims.
This morning to the right you
see David Breaux, also known as
the Compassion guy in the area.
Residents just held a vigil
for him over the weekend.
Also friends and family of UC
Davis student Kareem Abu Najan
also remembering him as a lovin,
fun and compassionate person.
Meanwhile, the third victim fighting for
her life this morning in the hospital.
Her identity not public at this time,
but we are continuing to monitor
her condition while the communiy
is wondering how authorities
will keep Davis residents safe.
All right, all these concerns brought towards
the City Council in a meeting yesterday.
ABC 10s Monica Coleman is live in Davis.
So, Monica, how are all the ages
and Davis all coming together ty
to give some folks some some answers?
Walt all hands on desk deck.
That is the message from
the Davis police chief.
He says that his team will be
working around the clock 12 hour
shift to keep the community saf,
but also continue this manhunt for the
person who has stabbed 3 people in Davis,
two of them which he has killed.
That investigation is still ongg
and the City Council dedicating
their Tuesday night meeting
to the deadly stabbing spree.
Police Chief Darren Patel gave
an update on the investigation.
The chief saying it's more prob.
The Not that the same suspect
carried out all three stabbings,
but police are not ruling
out multiple suspects.
Two of the three victims were homeless.
One was a UC Davis student.
There was an interesting part oe
meeting last night when the chif
addressed the number of tips coming in.
The chief saying it's been a
challenge to keep up with tips d
investigate them in a timely mar
about two hours prior to the
stabbing at 2nd and L Street.
We did receive a call from peope
in that area reporting that they
thought that they saw somebody o
matched the description of the e
suspect in the second homicide.
The description that was provided was
rather vague and the informatios
rather vague other than the pern
who was near their camps and appeared
to be hiding behind trees at tis
the based on the the information
provided being less so than information
provided in other calls and.
The number of tips that were co,
and it wasn't prioritized
at the highest level.
And as it turns out,
it's likely that the information was accurate
and that probably was the the suspect.
Chief Pietel. Went on to say that police
have been working with other agencies,
including on the state and fedel
levels to get more aid for the ,
including homicide teams from te
Sacramento County Sheriff's Off,
Sacramento Police Department
and some personnel from the FBI.
The edit resources have helped police boost
their presence and patrol here in Davis.
And just this morning we have sn
multiple agencies driving up and
down the streets here in Davis,
keeping people safe but also keg
an eye out for that alleged.
Attacker, back to you.
Yeah. Monica, interesting how
transparent Chief Pitel is bein.
I mean, a lot of tips coming
in and he chose to say, hey,
this was one maybe we could have
jumped on a little bit quicker.
So they're still not calling
this a serial killing spree.
So how is it at all?
Are these crimes connected?
Well, the chief tells us that
they are connected in some ways,
but then very different in many ways as well.
So first, the first two homicid,
the victims were both males.
But then with this third, excus,
this third stabbing that we saw yesterday,
it was a woman.
But she will play a vital piecen
solving this case because she dd
survive that stabbing and they e
able to interview her yesterday after
her surgery and she is in the hospital
recovering from her wounds and y
say that that interview will he.
Greatly with solving this crimed
hopefully getting somebody behind bars.
Yeah, OK, Monica Coleman, thank.
We're going to share the
description what the person the
police are looking for right no.
He's a man about 5659 thin buil,
curly hair, dark clothes,
black Adidas pants that may be
the most outstanding identifier
of this entire description here,
also with a brown backpack.
If you have any information or you may
think you know who this person might be,
please call Davis police And remember
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