California man charged with three deaths in suspected serial killer case

We're going to stay tenacious, we don't know how many cases there are,' Stockton police chief says

Prosecutors have charged a northern California man with fatally shooting three men whom police have said were among six victims slain by a serial killer over the past year and a half.

Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings dating back to April 2021. Police had been conducting surveillance on him on Saturday as he drove through the streets of Stockton, armed with a handgun and possibly out hunting" for another victim.