California police are seeking help from FBI profilers to determine whether the suspect in a series of stabbings near the University of California – Davis may be a serial killer, Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said Wednesday.
“We’ve been in contact with the FBI, and we’re trying to get profilers on board to make that determination. We’ve done that in the past.… We’re hoping that we get the same support with this one to make that determination,” Pytel said while responding to a reporter’s question about the possibility of a serial killer near campus.
Pytel’s comments came during a Wednesday press conference after three people were stabbed, two fatally, between April 27 and Monday near the UC Davis campus.
Authorities announced that they had detained an unnamed person of interest in the case on Wednesday morning, though police have not said whether that person is a suspect.
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The first stabbing left David Breaux, 50, dead on the morning of April 27. Police located Breaux, who was homeless, “slouched over” on a bench where he “normally sits or sleeps at night,” Pytel explained during the press conference.
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Breaux was locally known as the “compassion guy” because he often asked passers-by what “compassion” meant to them, according to FOX 40 Sacramento.
Two days later, UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, 20, was stabbed to death while walking home through Sycamore Park from an undergraduate awards ceremony sometime after 9 p.m. Najim studied computer science and was set to graduate in six weeks with honors.
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“We moved from Lebanon in 2018 when the situation in Lebanon was a little bit starting to go in not the right direction,” his father, Majdi Abou Najm, told KCRA. “We came here…
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