UPDATE: Suspect arrested for series of stabbings is a 21-year-old former UC Davis student believed to be from Oakland, police say.
Davis is a small city about 70 miles northeast of San Francisco and 15 miles west of Sacramento. There are roughly 67,000 residents in the city in addition to more than 13,000 students who live on the UC Davis campus.
The first death was reported Thursday when officers found David Henry Breaux, 50, in downtown’s Central Park, hunched over a bench where he often sat or slept. The second victim, Karim Abou Najm, was found Saturday night at Sycamore Park with multiple stab wounds.Davis police announce an arrest in the 3 stabbings that have taken place in the past week, two of them deadly. They detained the man yesterday after getting calls from the public who spotted a person matching suspect description. Police say he had a large knife in his backpack.
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