He was actively sought after.

Police in New York and Washington on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of a series of nighttime attacks on sleeping homeless people.

cold-blooded murders

The man, suspected of having killed two homeless people and injured three others by shooting them in their sleep, "is currently being questioned", said the police, promising more details later.

Denouncing murders committed in “cold blood” on a “vulnerable” population, the authorities had shown on Monday their determination to put the killer out of harm's way as quickly as possible.

A ruthless killer

“A ruthless killer is on the loose, but we are going to arrest him and put him in jail,” assured the Democratic mayors of New York, Eric Adams, and Washington, Muriel Bowser.

“It's urgent, he must not hurt or kill anyone else.

In the meantime, the councilors had called on the homeless to spend the night in emergency accommodation centers, claiming to have enough places to accommodate them all.

The same procedure

The man is suspected of having carried out five attacks using the same modus operandi.

The first two took place on March 3 and 8 in the northeast of the American capital.

The victims, who were shot, survived.

Wednesday 9, always in Washington, the helps had intervened because the tent of a SDF was on fire.

Inside they had found the body of a deceased man.

The autopsy showed that he had succumbed to multiple gunshots and stab wounds.

According to investigators, the killer then traveled to New York, about 400 km to the north.

Early Saturday morning, a 38-year-old man was found shot but alive in lower Manhattan.

At the end of the afternoon, the police had found another man in the same neighborhood, this time dead, with head and neck injuries.

An uplifting video

This video shows a man dressed in black, a hood over his head and wearing blue gloves.

He walks around a man bundled up in a yellow sleeping bag, kicks him lightly to check that he's asleep, takes a look around, before shooting.

It was by seeing this film that a Washington police investigator had made the link between the two series of attacks.

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