https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-manhunt-underway-serial-killer-suspected-string-deaths
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-01/killer-preying-on-the-unhoused-lapd-searching-for-shooter-targeting-homeless-people

Los Angeles police have launched a search for a killer suspected of fatally shooting three homeless people in separate incidents around the city, police officials announced Friday.

All three killings occurred in the early morning hours over a few days in November, Police Chief Michel Moore said. Officials issued an urgent call for homeless people to seek shelter if they can and avoid sleeping alone until a suspect is apprehended.

“This is a killer preying on the unhoused,” Mayor Karen Bass said.

The killings raised new alarms in Los Angeles’ homeless community, which a count completed earlier this year pegged at more than 46,000 people. The city has been struggling to provide housing to this population, which the count found increased 10% over the last year.

The count also found that 70% of the city’s homeless population is unsheltered, meaning they’re sleeping outdoors on any given night.

The first victim was shot about 3:10 am. on Sunday in an alley near the intersection of 110th Street and Vermont Avenue in South L.A., police said. The man, identified by police as Jose Bolanos, 37, was found dead with a gunshot wound.

The following day, Mark Diggs, 62, was shot and killed about 4:45 a.m. in the 600 block of Mateo Street. Moore said Diggs was pushing a shopping cart and had stopped to plug in his phone and was about to go to sleep when the assailant approached him and shot him.

The third shooting occurred on Wednesday at about 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of Avenue 18 and Pasadena Avenue in the Lincoln Heights area, where the body of a 52-year-old Latino man was discovered.