Is serial killer in Stockton, Calif. also Chicago’s “Duck Walk Killer”?

Police in Stockton, California are working straight with Chicago police to find out whether or not a serial killer in Stockton is similar man who shot and killed two folks in chilly blood in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in 2018, CBS Chicago stories.

CBS Sacramento’s Laura Haefeli first broke this story with the assistance of CBS Chicago’s Brad Edwards, who confirmed it together with his police sources.

The Stockton serial killer, who, based on police, has taken the lives of six folks and injured a seventh in Stockton and Oakland, has a metropolis on edge as they surprise who may be subsequent.

All of the victims have been shot, and police say ballistics proof linked the identical man to the shootings.

Final week, police launched video surveillance footage of the person they imagine is the killer and requested residents to concentrate to his gait. His stride is uneven and walks together with his arms in his pockets.

After the surveillance video was launched, Edwards known as CBS Sacramento and informed them concerning the Rogers Park murders.

Two males – Eliyahu Moscowitz and Douglass Watts – have been killed in a interval of about 36 hours within the fall of 2018.

First, Watts, 73, was fatally shot on Sept. 30, 2018, whereas strolling his two canines.

The subsequent evening, Moscowitz was strolling down a motorcycle path when somebody shot him. Moscowitz labored at a grocery retailer.

Each victims have been shot within the head, and then-Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson stated within the days after the capturing that ballistics checks confirmed shell casings from each shootings got here from the identical gun.

The masked gunman was caught on surveillance video, and police have stated he has a definite duck stroll or limp. The suspect has been known as the Duck Stroll Killer.

He hasn’t been seen since.

“This double homicide that occurred struck a chord in Chicago — nobody’s forgotten about it, and we’ve got lots of crime in Chicago,” CBS Chicago’s Edwards informed CBS Sacramento.

CBS Sacramento in contrast surveillance movies of the suspects, and the similarities between the lads are putting. Each are carrying all black, their heads and faces are coated, and their stroll is nearly precisely alike. 

“Over and again and again we heard ‘take note of the gait, the gait … the stroll,’ and it struck a chord. This week, when detectives in Chicago noticed the video out of Northern California, once more it was ‘take note of the gait,” Edwards stated.

Now, each police departments try to find out whether or not the killers are the identical particular person. 

“My sources inform me high-level conversations are happening,” Edwards informed CBS Sacramento. “There’s an absolute open e book sharing of data.”