"Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives are looking for possible links among the recent slayings of four homeless people in Willowbrook, including the killing of former NFL lineman Kevin Johnson, who was stabbed to death last month. Johnson, 55, known in his playing days as "Big Kev," was found dead after sheriff's deputies on Jan. 21 got a call of an unconscious man at a homeless encampment where he had been living. Responding paramedics declared the former player dead at the scene."
""We are looking at the possibility that they are connected," said Nicole Nishida, a department spokeswoman, adding that at this early stage it is just one path being pursued and that no conclusions have been made. The proximity of the killings to each other and that all the victims are from the same unhoused community along the Compton Creek, just south of Los Angeles, has ignited the concern that one or more may be tied together. But each slaying had a different method."
Los Angeles County homicide detectives are investigating possible links among four recent slayings of people living in a Willowbrook homeless encampment. Kevin Johnson, 55, a former NFL lineman known as "Big Kev," was found dead on Jan. 21 with blunt force trauma and stab wounds, according to the medical examiner. Earlier victims include Michelle Steele, 52, who was shot Oct. 5 and died Nov. 12 after hospitalization, and Octavio Arias, who suffered fatal head and neck trauma on Dec. 4. All victims lived along the Compton Creek; methods differed, and investigators have made no conclusions.
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