Between July 8, 2022, and September 7, 2022, five people were murdered in Stockton, according to the San Joaquin County medical examiner’s office, via NBC News. Paul Alexander Yaw, 35, a homeless white male, was the first Stockton victim; he was murdered on July 8, his estranged mother claimed that he had been at an unidentified park when he was killed. Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, a Hispanic male was killed on August 11, according to ABC10; he was alive when officers arrived on the scene but life-saving measures failed to save him. Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, a 21-year-old Hispanic male, was killed on August 30. Juan Cruz, a 52-year-old Hispanic male, was killed on September 21. Lawrence Lopez Sr., 43, a Hispanic male who was also experiencing homelessness, was killed on September 27. All of the killings took place at night or in the early morning hours, according to ABC News.
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On October 3, according to a KCRA report, authorities announced that an Oakland murder and an Oakland attempted murder were connected to the Stockton murders. These two crimes happened months before the Stockton murders, going back to April 10, 2021, when a 40-year-old Hispanic man was killed in that city. Also in Oakland, on April 16, 2021, a 46-year-old Black woman (per The New York Times) was shot multiple times; she survived her injuries. Police did not say why they connected these two crimes to the Stockton crimes, although they said that they had a “person of interest” in both sets of crimes.
