seriously injured. has left this entire community here rattled including uc davis. he we understand that they are about to make an announcement here that they have a person detained in connection with the two homicides and this attempted homicide. now, since this all started of course the community of uc davis, you know, many students have been very scared including the people that live here. and the university has even told some of their student groups to reschedule some of their events, try to take those online to not go outside because there has just been such a danger over the last few days, jake, and it s really rattled this community. thank you so much. we will well, okay. so let me just ask you, we re expecting them to announce you think that they have a suspect in custody? yeah, that s right. yesterday they announced that they had a person of interest that they had taken to the station that had voluntarily come to the davis police station where they were, you kn
sacramento in california. davis, california police just announcing that they have arrested a person in connection with serial stabbings, two brutal stabbing deaths and one attempted homicide earlier this week near the campus of the university of california davis last week. the police chief saying that the arrest occurred about an hour ago. police have yet to identify the suspect publicly, but they say they found a large knife in his backpack, one that matches the description of the murder weapon. let s bring in cnn s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john, first of all, we should note, very interesting, the police chief, darren pytel talking about and we should mention the names of the victims here, david breaux and karim najim, who were killed, as well as a third individual, a woman. kimberly. kimberly. the police crediting the public, saying they gave a description of the individual and 15 members
the first homicide occurred on april 27th, 2023 at 11:20 a.m., and that s when it was reported. we responded for a check over in central park and the responding units found a person deceased, david breaux. he had been stabbed many times. and it was apparent that it was a particularly brazen and brutal attack. we launched an investigation, collected a lot of physical evidence, and immediately started looking for who may be responsible. the problem with this one is there was no eyewitnesses, and so we had to wait for evidence to come back through the investigation. and then just two nights later we had another attack. this one karim was in the park, sycamore park, located in central west davis, and he was violently attacked and stabbed
until one person stayed on the line with them and literally followed him till police could get there. now, that s community engagement. police were at first reluctant to call this a serial stabber. they wanted to make sure that the individual who stabbed david breaux is the same one who stabbed karim najim, both of those fatal, as well as the woman kimberly earlier. i guess they were hoping to get dna to link the crimes? well, it is very common in the case of a blitz attack, one of these frenzied attacks with multiple stab wounds, that the perpetrator will also contribute dna at the scene, often his own blood as the hand may slip off the knife during these multiple stabs. in this case the police chief was slightly cagey there, saying you know, we recovered evidence from his backpack, a knife, we also recovered his clothing and evidence on him. that s probably, possibly an allusion to dna, either wearing the same clothing that the
week. and i also wish a speedy recovery to kim, who was severely wounded in a knife attack just a few days ago. she s recovering in the hospital, and we re hoping for a speedy recovery and that she ll soon be released. these crimes were horrific. they re hard to imagine. they struck fear in the community. and we know that. we ve also experienced loss. david and karim were taken away too soon. we will never truly understand the sadness or sense of loss for their families, and we ll miss them. we hope that the announcement today provides some level of relief. i want to thank the entire regional law enforcement system and national. we have allied agencies here and on our website you ll see a list of all the agencies that helped