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Issue 2 • Friday, Oct. 7, 2022 •
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STOCKTON ON ALERT String of homicides close to Delta’s campus prompts warnings from Stockton police as no clear image emerges of potential suspect BY ARIANNA JUÁREZ Editor-in-Chief
Video surveillance footage featuring a person of interest in the investigation of six homicides and a shooting has been released by Stockton Police Department Chief Stanley McFadden during an Oct. 4 press conference that included Mayor Kevin Lincoln and City Manager Harry Black. This release comes just days after SPD initially disclosed that the department was looking into five Stockton homicides the department believed were “interconnected” on Sep. 28. “By definition these shootings are a series of killings,” said McFadden during the Oct. 4 update. “We do believe we have a potential serial killer.” The grainy video surveillance footage shared during this press conference featured a man in dark clothing with his back to the camera. The man had an “uneven stride” and an “extremely upright” posture, noted McFadden. “We’ve seen this person of interest on more than one of the incidents, so it’s absolutely someone we want to talk to,” McFad-
den said about the unknown suspect. The City of Stockton, Stockton Crime Stoppers, and the Federal Bureau Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with donations from anonymous local business owners, are now offering a combined $125,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest. “There’s one thing we know about the city of Stockton,” said Lincoln in his first address to the city since news about this investigation broke last week. “We are resilient. And when we experience and we go through adversity, like the chief said, we come together. We find a way.” The community was first alerted that a series of five Stockton homicides with similar patterns were under investigation on Sept. 30. Later, on Oct. 3, SPD disclosed in a Facebook post that it was now considering two additional cases that could potentially be linked with the initial five identified. The April 10, 2021, shooting death of a 40-year-old Hispanic man in Oakland, as well as an April 16, 2021, shooting of a 46-year-old black woman at Park Street and
See ALERT, page 8
BY ARIANNA JUÁREZ Editor-in-Chief
PHOTO BY CHRISTINA GOODMAN
Students address lack of food Entertainment Editor
If you have wandered into Danner Hall you probably noticed a dimly-lit room, sparsely populated by students roaming about eating vending-machine potato chips and microwaved burritos. You may have also noticed a large section in the back that resembles a fully functional kitchen which sits untouched like a ghost town. Welcome to the current state of the caf-
PHOTO COURTESY OF STOCKTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
Forum brings candidates for Stockton Unified school board to campus
Salad offerings in Danner Hall are part of the limited offerings at the location. Students addressed the board on Sept. 20 to voice concerns about a lack of food on campus.
BY NICHOLAS MICHELSEN
Stockton Police Department released an image and footage of a person of interest in a series of related homicides.
eteria at Delta College. Large counter top steam tables are filled to the brim with nothing, a hot food grill and fresh deli section are dark and empty, and closed off by a rack of chips and several boxes. “It [would be] pretty nice to be able to go in and get [hot] food cheaper overall. It would be more of an incentive to sit around and do just schoolwork. That would help me out,” said Kyle Gold-
smith, a new student of Delta, during a College Hour event Sept. 15 where the Associated Students of Delta College brought in a food vendor to serve students. The state of the cafeteria recently became a public comment topic at the Sept. 20 meeting of the Board of Trustees where Digital Media students who spend a lot of time on campus noted the lack of options in Danner Hall.
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The third and final in a series of San Joaquin County election candidate forums brought community members to the South Forum building on Wednesday, Sept. 28. These question and answer forums were sponsored by Delta College, as well as the University of the Pacific’s Eberhardt School of Business, CSU Stanislaus, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and other notable Stockton organizations. These public forums, where the community is encouraged to get to know potential elected officials, were held over the span of three weeks during the month of September. Each forum featured candidates from different local government races on the ballot this November. Questions were asked by students who represented Delta’s political science department, as well as local government reporter Ben Irwin of The Record. Wednesday’s forum featured candidates running for seats on the Stockton Unified School District’s Board of Education. The embattled board is holding elections this November, just weeks after a lengthy report from the San Joaquin County Grand Jury detailing severe financial mismanagement and operational dysfunction was released. This comprehensive report concluded that SUSD’s management and board of trustees “were not adhering to policies
See FORUM, page 8
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