Crime & Safety

Itzcoatl Ocampo Accused of Serial Murders of Homeless

The photo of the man accused of killing four homeless men in Anaheim, Placentia and Yorba Linda.

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At 4 p.m. Saturday, Anaheim police announced they were charging Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, of Yorba Linda, with four murders.

Here is the first photograph released of Ocampo, whom Anaheim Police accuse of stabbing four homeless men to death over the last month.

Ocampo was pursued by at least two residents after police say he stabbed an unidentified homeless man to death inside a busy restaurant parking lot around 8:15 p.m. Friday. Based on resident tips, police captured him later that night.

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