At least five attacks
CCTV footage showing a bearded man, dressed in black and with a shaved head, has been released by law enforcement, who are offering rewards of thousands of dollars for any information that could identify him. He is, according to them, responsible for five attacks perpetrated with the “ same modus operandi” about men who slept on the streets.
The first two took place in the middle of the night, on March 3 and 8, in the northeast of the American capital. The victims, who were shot, survived. On Wednesday 9, still in Washington, the emergency services intervened because the tent of a homeless person was on fire. Inside they found the body of a deceased man who had been shot and stabbed several times. According to investigators, the killer then traveled to New York, about 400 km to the north. On the night of Friday to Saturday, he committed two new attacks. A 38-year-old man was found injured but alive in the early morning in the south of the New York island of Manhattan.
At the end of the afternoon, in the same neighborhood, the police found another dead man, injured in the head and neck. According to CCTV footage, the suspect shot him around 6 a.m. while he was sleeping, shortly after the first incident. These images, broadcast by local channels, show a man dressed in black, his head covered with a hood and his hands in blue gloves. He walks around a man wrapped up in a sleeping bag, kicks him lightly to check that he isn’t reacting, takes a look around, before shooting.
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