Davis police make 6th arrest in string of ‘unprovoked’ assaults, including on homeless victims
Police on Wednesday arrested a sixth suspect linked to what authorities described as a series of unprovoked attacks earlier this year in Davis, including on homeless victims.
The Davis Police Department last month announced the arrests of a 21-year-old Dixon man and four juvenile suspects in connection to four total attacks that took place between January and March.
Police said at the time that an additional suspect, an 18-year-old Dixon man, remained at large with his whereabouts unknown.
The 18-year-old was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy, the Police Department said in a social media post.
Police said the six suspects on March 29 assaulted two people near Second and F streets. One of the two victims was seriously injured.
In later updates, the department said investigators uncovered video evidence of three previous, unreported assaults.
At least one person in the group of suspects attacked a man Jan. 4 near an elevator in a city-owned parking garage at 101 F St., police said.
Police also learned that the 21-year-old man and two of the juveniles who were arrested had attacked a man the night of March 23 in the 500 block of L Street. Later that night, police said, that trio attacked two more men near the same elevator as the Jan. 4 incident.
“All of the unreported attacks were unprovoked and targeted unhoused individuals living in Davis,” police wrote in a news release, referring to the three attacks Jan. 4 and March 23. None of those three resulted in serious injuries, police said.
