Surveillance photos of a possible suspect, circulated by the San Diego Police Department
A 39-year-old man named Jon David Guerrero was just arrested for a series of horrific attacks on five homeless people in San Diego this month, which caused three fatalities and serious injuries to two surviving victims. Guerrero is expected to be charged with three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, according to ABC News in San Diego.Most of the victims were found with severe burns on their upper torsos, and autopsies of two victims confirm that they were lit on fire. Witnesses near a freeway underpass, where one of the crimes took place, reportedly saw a man running with a gas can close to the same freeway.Just this morning, another victim was found brutally beaten while sleeping outside. He was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for his injuries, but isn't expected to survive, according to ABC News.Police say they are confident that Guerrero is the perpetrator. "We have the right person in custody," Captain David Nesleit said at a press conference on Friday.Nationwide, there are approximately 100 such attacks on the homeless each year, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless."The homeless are not sheltered from the elements or malevolent assailants. They are attractive victims," Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University San Bernardino, told Broadly earlier this month. "There is a class-based prejudice in the United States, and [these San Diego attacks] illustrate that."Follow Mike Pearl on Twitter.
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