A cousin and friend of an Oakland man shot dead last year said they were stunned when they learned the killing was linked to an alleged Stockton serial killer.
"It was just a shock for me to, you know, when I come outside and see that it was my cousin Mervin," said Chalita West, a cousin of Mervin Harmon.
Harmon, who was homeless, was shot dead on April 16, 2021 in the driveway of his cousin’s home near 62nd and Bromley avenues in East Oakland. San Joaquin County prosecutors filed four additional murder charges against Wesley Brownlee, the man who had been previously accused as a serial killer with victims in Stockton and Oakland.The San Joaquin County DA says Brownlee went on to shoot and kill five men in Stockton in 2022. In all, he’s been charged with seven counts of murder and the special circumstance of multiple murder.
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