A Stockton man arrested in connection with a string of shooting deaths in the city will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon. Here’s a timeline of events in the case and what’s led to this point in the investigation.
Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested early Saturday morning by Stockton police just two weeks after the department announced a string of shootings that took six lives — five in Stockton and one in Oakland — and injured another victim may be the work of a serial killer.
Brownlee was booked into the county jail Saturday afternoon and is being held without bail, according to online jail records. He will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in Stockton.
San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar thanked local, state and federal law and government agencies that assisted in the case, as well as the community at large, for bringing to the victims.
“This crime was solved because we’re Stocktonians,” Verber Salazar said at a press conference announcing Brownlee’s arrest Saturday afternoon. “Because you don’t come to our house and bring this kind of reign of terror.” …
Cassie Dickman 