LOS ANGELES — Two men were arrested Friday in Los Angeles in connection with a string of deadly shootings at 7-Eleven stores in Southern California that left two dead and three injured, as well as the fatal shooting of a homeless man in L.A.
Malik Patt, 20, and Jason Payne, 44, were captured after being tracked by the Orange County Violent Crime Task Force following the series of robberies and homicides that began a week ago in Los Angeles and cut across Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
“This was a reign of terror,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in announcing the arrests along with authorities from across the region. “To be thinking that you go to a convenience store or a doughnut shop or a sandwich shop and to get shot in the face or call your loved one with your last gasps for breath.”
