Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, was arrested on Friday for the murder of four homeless men in Orange County, California and remains in solitary confinement. He was chased down by bystanders who witnessed him slay a homeless man, John Berry, 64, behind a fast-food restaurant in the Anaheim shopping center parking lot. Amongst the other victims were James Patrick Mc Gillivray, 53, who was killed near a shopping center in Placentia on Dec 20; Lloyd Middaugh, 42, who was found dead in Anaheim on Dec. 28; and Paulus Smit, 57, whose body was found in Yorba Linda on Dec. 30.
Friends and family reportedly say that after Ocampo returned from Iraq in 2010, the former Marine became increasingly troubled. Ocampo is located in the Central Jail Complex in Santa Ana, California. The district attorney’s office in Orange County will announce his charges on Tuesday morning.
