A 33-year-old Hispanic man who hasn’t been identified, embarked on a serial robbery and murder spree which ended when he was taken into custody by multiple officers on Wednesday evening as he walked out of the 7-Eleven convenience store in Santa Ana, California

What was the motive – Drugs, rage or hate? Authorities wonder after a 33-year-old man was  arrested outside a California 7-Eleven after he went on a rampage stabbing and robbing his way across two cities, leaving four people and seriously injuring two others.
The man, who hasn’t been identified, was taken into custody by multiple officers on Wednesday evening as he walked out of the convenience store in Santa Ana.
He dropped a knife and gun he had taken from a security guard he had allegedly just killed as he was surrounded by police.

Police say the man robbed more than half a dozen businesses and killed two men at his own apartment complex during the two-hour wave of violence earlier in the day.
He is also accused of killing the security guard and a male worker at a Subway restaurant.
Police say the man seriously injured a female bank employee during his crime spree and stabbed a man, nearly severing his nose off, while he was pumping gas.

Investigators said the violence appeared to be random and the only known motives seem to be ‘robbery, hate, homicide’.
‘We know this guy was full of anger and he harmed a lot of people,’ Garden Grove police Lt. Carl Whitney said.
Surveillance cameras caught some of the carnage.
‘We have video showing him attacking these people and conducting these murders,’ Whitney said.
The murderous rampage started Wednesday when police received a burglary call shortly after 4 p.m. local time, police said. Two people said they’d come home and found their apartment burglarized.
As officers prepared to respond to the apartment burglary, another call came in about 20 minutes later about a robbery at a bakery in Garden Grove in which an unknown amount of cash was taken.
The same suspect broke into the apartment and then drove his silver Mercedes to the bakery, police said. From the bakery, he returned to the apartment, got into an altercation and fatally stabbed two people. One male victim died inside an apartment and another was found wounded on the balcony and later died at a hospital.
The suspect lived in the same apartment complex and it’s unclear whether he knew the victims. However, at the time, officers did not know that the apartment and bakery incidents were connected. 

The owner, who asked not to be identified, told KCAL-TV that she was charging her cellphone at about 4pm when the man drove up and apparently mistook her for a customer.
‘He went directly to the register and tried to open the register… he showed me a gun,’ she said.
He took all the money and fled.
‘I think I was very lucky because he thought I was a customer, not the owner,’ she said.


The man also robbed an insurance business where a 54-year-old female employee was stabbed several times and was expected to survive, authorities said.
Police said he was armed with ‘some sort of machete knives’ when he confronted the woman.
Whitney described the woman as ‘very brave’ and said she ‘found as best she could’.
An alarm company saw the robbery on a live television feed and called police.