Suspect arrested in 5 shootings of homeless men in NYC & Washington, DC

The Metropolitan Police Division confirmed the arrest on Twitter, thanking the group “for all of your suggestions.”

A regulation enforcement supply instructed ABC Information that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives brokers from the Washington Subject Division arrested a person that investigators imagine is the suspect within the shootings. The arrest was made early Tuesday morning alongside Pennsylvania Avenue in southeastern Washington.

The mayors of New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C., had provided a $70,000 reward in connection to lethal shootings involving folks experiencing homelessness between the 2 cities.

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams and Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced the information in a uncommon joint press convention on Monday.

“Homelessness shouldn’t be a murder,” Adams stated. “This was a cold-blooded assault.”

DC and New York Metropolis police had been collectively investigating the shootings of 5 homeless folks throughout each cities that they stated might have been dedicated by the identical suspect.

Due to similarities in “the modus operandi of the perpetrator, widespread circumstances concerned in every capturing, circumstances of the victims and recovered proof,” each police departments in New York Metropolis and Washington D.C., will collectively examine the shootings with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, they stated in a Sunday information launch

The primary shootings occurred in Washington on March 3, 8 and 9. The sufferer discovered on March 9 was found by police after they had been responding to a tent hearth within the metropolis’s northeast. He succumbed to stab and gunshot wounds, in keeping with an post-mortem.

The 2 shootings in New York occurred on March 12. One sufferer was injured and one other was killed, in keeping with the joint information launch.

NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and MPD Chief Robert J. Contee III stated within the information launch that they’re dedicated to security for homeless people and to discovering the suspect within the shootings.

“Our homeless inhabitants is one in all our most susceptible and a person preying on them as they sleep is an exceptionally heinous crime,” Sewell stated in an announcement.

“We’re dedicated to sharing each investigative path, clue and piece of proof with our regulation enforcement companions to convey this investigation to a swift conclusion and the person behind these vicious crimes to justice,” Contee stated.

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Each communities “are heartbroken and disturbed by these heinous crimes wherein a person has been focusing on a few of our most susceptible residents,” Adams and Bowser stated in an announcement on Sunday.

“It’s heartbreaking and tragic to know that along with all the risks that unsheltered residents face, we now have a cold-blooded killer on the free, however we’re sure that we’ll get the suspect off the road and into police custody,” they stated.

The mayors stated they spoke on Sunday about their cities working collectively on the investigation.

ABC Information’ Aaron Katersky, Joshua Hoyos, Beatrice Peterson, and Chad Murray contributed to this report.