A masked gunman has struck five times in nine days – shooting homeless people as they slept on the streets of New York and Washington DC.
Police say the “modus operandi” is the same in each case and the mayors of the two cities fear a “cold-blooded killer” is on the loose.
Two of the people died. One’s tent was set on fire, after he was stabbed and shot.
A reward is now being offered to catch the killer.
Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department said one man was shot on 3 March and another on 8 March – both in the middle of the night.
Just a day later, emergency services responded to a tent fire in the city where they found a man inside who had been fatally shot and stabbed. END
