Suspect in deadly beatings of homeless in Los Angeles arrested for assault

LOS ANGELES – A man believed to have beaten unconscious a homeless man Monday is believed to have committed at least six other attacks in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, which killed three people and seriously injured him. Others, the police said.

Police in both cities planned to discuss the case at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

Ramon Escobar, 47, was arrested while a homeless man was unconscious and some of his possessions were sitting against a pole or wall shortly before 7 am The man was hospitalized in critical condition with head injuries. Saul Rodriguez said.

Escobar was arrested about 30 minutes after the victim's discovery, Rodriguez said. It was not clear if Escobar had a lawyer.

The Los Angeles police subsequently issued a statement that Escobar was the man who used a baseball bat to hit the heads of three homeless men who slept in the downtown streets before dawn on Monday. September 16th.

The police said that the attacker was also homeless and wanted to rob the men. He was captured on a surveillance video ransacking their pockets and belongings.

Rodriguez said that Monday's attack seemed similar to at least four beatings in the coastal town.

"We have not confirmed 100% that it is good for our suspect but this has not been ruled out," Rodriguez said. "We hope to connect them together."

Two homeless men sleeping on the beach were hit in the early morning of September 8th and September 10th, leaving one of them in critical condition, Rodriguez said.

Another man who was apparently sleeping on the beach was found dead under the city wharf on September 20th. Steven Ray Cruze Jr., 39, of San Gabriel, was beaten to death.

The authorities first described him as homeless, but his family and friends said that the father of two, who loved fishing on the pier, worked in boats from Marina Del Rey and sometimes camped under the pier.