LOS ANGELES—A man who police said fled to California from Texas after being questioned in the disappearance of two relatives was charged on Sept. 26 in Los Angeles with bludgeoning eight men, three fatally, in a string of attacks aimed mostly at homeless victims.
Ramon Alberto Escobar, 47, an El Salvador native and convicted burglar who has been repeatedly deported from the United States, was arrested on Sept. 24 after he allegedly clubbed a sleeping man in the head with bolt-cutters in the ocean-front city of Santa Monica, authorities said.
