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cases, which have left residents of the Northern California city
on edge, have been linked by forensic ballistics evidence,
Stockton Police Chief Stanley McFadden told a news conference.
The shootings took place between April 10 and Sept. 27. Six
victims were killed and a seventh survived her injuries.
"We don't know what the motive is. What we do believe is that
it's mission-oriented. This person is on a mission," McFadden
said.
The chief said it was not clear what the victims, who included
both men and women and ranged in age from 21 to 54, have in
common. All but one were attacked in the Stockton area with the
exception of a 46-year-old woman shot in Oakland who was the
lone survivor.
Surveillance camera footage released by the Stockton Police
Department showed a man who McFadden described as a "person of
interest" from behind as he walked through the hallway of an
apartment building or motel.
McFadden said detectives did not have evidence tying the man
seen in the video to the shootings but wanted to speak to him as
part of their investigation.
He asked members of the public watching the footage to pay
attention to the man's "uneven stride" and unusually upright
posture. A reward of $125,000 has been offered for information
leading to an arrest.
Stockton is a city of more than 300,000 people in California's
central valley, about 60 miles east of San Francisco.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb)
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