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‘A reign of terror’: Two men arrested in deadly 7-Eleven shootings, also linked to earlier killing

A makeshift memorial for 40- year-old Matthew Hirsch, a 7- Eleven store clerk who was fatally shot in the early hours of Monday morning at the store located at 100 block of W Lambert Rd on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Brea, California.

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

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