O.C. officials warn of ‘extremely dangerous and violent criminal’ on the loose

Orange County officers are warning the general public about an “extraordinarily harmful and violent felony” who’s on the free.

Ike Souzer, 18, was launched from the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange on Wednesday and transferred to a Santa Ana midway home on digital monitoring, the O.C. District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned.

In some unspecified time in the future, he took off the monitor and disappeared.

Prosecutors had warned he poses a big public security risk. He had additionally beforehand escaped from juvenile corridor in 2019 however was recaptured shortly after.

Souzer has a violent historical past of attacking correctional officers, in accordance with the D.A.’s workplace.

He’s thought-about to be “extraordinarily harmful and violent,” the D.A.’s workplace mentioned. For those who see him, you’re urged to not strategy him and to name 911 instantly.

Along with different fees, Souzer was convicted in December of attacking three correctional officers and was ordered to put on an digital monitor for the rest of his
sentence, which was set to run out on July 9, 2023.

He was initially arrested underneath suspicion of killing his mom in Backyard Grove on Might 4, 2017. He was later discovered responsible of manslaughter in juvenile court docket in 2019.

Barbara Scheuer-Souzer, 47, was discovered by a neighbor coated in blood outdoors her dwelling within the 11000 block of Gilbert Avenue, police mentioned on the time. She had been stabbed a number of instances within the abdomen.

Earlier than she died, Scheuer-Souzer had recognized her son — then 13 — because the attacker, in accordance with investigators. Police didn’t establish the boy on the time as a result of his age.