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Suspected Stockton serial killer Wesley Brownlee tied to 4 other slayings, prosecutor says
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A man suspected in Northern California serial killings has been charged in four additional slayings this week, bringing the total to seven deaths since April 2021, authorities said.
The shootings terrorized the Central Valley city of Stockton earlier this year as police searched for a man clad in black who appeared to be "on a mission" as he hunted victims for ambush-style shootings. He was also tied to violence in Alameda County.
Wesley Brownlee was arrested in October when he "was out hunting" for another possible victim in Stockton, police said at the time. Authorities had said they had linked him to the killings of six men and the wounding of a woman. Prosecutors charged him in a seventh killing, which had not been disclosed before, on Tuesday.
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