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OAKLAND, Calif., March 25 (UPI) -- The fugitive parolee who shot four Oakland, Calif., police officers to death last weekend was also linked to the rape of a 12-year-old girl, police say.
DNA belonging to Lovelle Mixon, who died in a hail of police bullets Saturday as he exchanged fire with police from inside his sister's apartment, was found on a girl who had been dragged off the street at gunpoint in the same East Oakland neighborhood, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Investigators told the newspaper Mixon, 26, was suspected in as many as five other neighborhood rapes in recent months, saying all the victims were assaulted in the early-morning hours and that the attacker behaved similarly in each incident.
No arrest warrant had been issued for Mixon in the rape cases, but he was wanted for allegedly skipping a February meeting with his parole officer.
Officials told the Chronicle they learned the day before the shootings that a sample of Mixon's DNA, collected when he was sent to prison in 2002, allegedly matched evidence recovered after the Feb. 5 rape of the 12-year-old girl.
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