Angry mob targets wrong house after accused serial cat killer released from jail as vigil turns violent

A vigil to grant felines slain by an accused serial feline slayer successful Santa Ana, California, took a convulsive crook erstwhile attendees decided they would way the fishy down themselves… but got the incorrect house.

The vigil came 1 week aft Santa Ana Police arrested a antheral who they said murdered dozens of cats successful a vicinity successful the city. 

Residents claimed that the suspected feline slayer utilized a needle to inject a substance into 1 of the cats, and different nonmigratory told FOX 11 Los Angeles that they recovered their feline hanging from a tree.

The suspect, identified arsenic 45-year-old Alejandro Oliveros Acosta, allegedly confessed to carrying retired the heinous crimes to police. He bonded retired and was released from jailhouse Thursday, constabulary confirmed. 

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45-year-old Alejandro Oliveros Acosta was arrested for felony carnal cruelty aft allegedly sidesplitting aggregate cats successful the neighborhood. (FOX 11)

During Sunday night's vigil for the cats, a mob surrounded some sides of a location crossed the thoroughfare from Acosta's location that the assemblage believed belonged to his brother.

The outlet reported that the mob demanded that helium travel out, and began to interruption windows and adjacent pepper-sprayed the antheral who lived successful the location arsenic children were seen watching the full ordeal unfold from inside.

The victim, who did not privation to beryllium identified, told FOX 11 that helium is not Acosta's brother, but that the alleged feline slayer is related to his brother-in-law. The unfortunate past claimed helium had not seen oregon heard from Acosta since his arrest. 

It took much than an hr for Santa Ana constabulary to get connected the scene, FOX 11 reported. 

A vigil for cats allegedly killed by a serial feline slayer turned convulsive erstwhile a mob decided to way the fishy down, but targeted the incorrect house. (FOX 11)

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Santa Ana Police Department for comment, but did not perceive back. 

FOX 11 reported that the assemblage continued to chant extracurricular the incorrect location and accused the residents of collaborating with the feline murderer, contempt constabulary declaring it an unlawful assembly. 

"Last night, during a vigil related to this case, respective individuals became unruly, vandalized property, and threw objects successful a neighborhood. While we enactment the community’s close to peacefully assemble, the Santa Ana Police Department volition not tolerate acts of violence, vandalism, oregon immoderate threats to nationalist safety," the constabulary section released successful a connection connected X.

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"Any harm to beingness oregon spot volition person consequences, and those engaging successful transgression behaviour volition beryllium held accountable. We admit the community’s practice and patience arsenic this lawsuit moves done the ineligible system," the connection continued.

A unfortunate told FOX 11 that they knew thing astir Acosta's alleged crimes and were terrified by the crowds' actions. 

The aggravated mob threw rocks and the location proprietor was adjacent capsicum sprayed. (FOX 11)

"The peaceful protesting wasn't truthful peaceful. They're scaring kids here. It's scaring the full family. There are kids, 7 kids successful this house. Two small babies, 1 that is autistic. You know, breaking our fences… capsicum spraying america for nary reason. If you did what you did, I didn't cognize thing astir it. You know, erstwhile we recovered out, we were shocked," the unfortunate told FOX 11.

Over respective weeks, the Santa Ana Police Department said they received aggregate disturbing reports involving the suspected maltreatment and sidesplitting of cats successful a section neighborhood. 

Police said the reports alleged that a antheral had been luring vicinity cats to and astir his property, wherever helium past harmed oregon killed them.

Detectives arrested Acosta connected Wednesday morning, wherever helium was past taken into custody and booked connected felony charges related to carnal cruelty.

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Alejandro Oliveros Acosta is accused of luring and sidesplitting an chartless fig of cats successful a Santa Ana neighborhood. (Santa Ana Police Department)

Neighbors told FOX 11 they judge their cats whitethorn person been victims of Acosta, and are readying to study those missing cats to police.

In effect to Acosta bonding retired of jail, constabulary said "the close to bail is protected nether the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution," and that individuals who are arrested successful California "may station bail based connected predetermined bail schedules established nether the California Penal Code for definite offenses."

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"These schedules supply standardized bail amounts depending connected the quality of the alleged crime," constabulary said successful a connection shared connected X. "At arraignment, it is wrong the discretion of the tribunal to reappraisal and, if warranted, revoke oregon set bail conditions based connected the circumstances presented. Ultimately, immoderate modification to bail is simply a judicial determination made successful accordance with the law."