police say the victim was shot while stopping the kidnapping of his 16-year-old daughter in visalia. his daughter said it began when a masked gunman broke into her bedroom in the middle of the night, threatened her and dragged her out of the house. >> that's when i heard my dad yell and the man with the ski mask pushed me to the ground, turned, shot my dad twice as he was coming through the backdoor. >> now police say deangelo is also the so-called visalia ransacker, the man accused of burglarizing more than 100 homes in the area about the same time that snelling was killed. investigators say the gun used to kill snelling was stolen by the visalia ransacker. >> these crimes and the manner in which they were committed brought fear to this quiet community during the 18 month period in which the visalia ransacker terrorized this city and was at times was known to eat or prepare food in the victims' residences during his crimes. >> joseph deangelo is accused of killing at least a dozen others during the 1970s and '80s. dna evidence led to his arrest in april. >> a lot of the officers tha

authorities in visalia say, they have evidence that joseph deangelo is also the so-called 'visalia ransacker' of the 1970's.. the new murder charge against deangelo - filed in tulare county - brings the number of victims in his alleged murder spree to 13... investigators believe deangelo is the man behind roughly one- hundred home burglaries in visalia - between april 1974 and december 1975. they also say, he is the man who shot and killed college professor claude snelling during a home invasion in 1975. police say, snelling had discovered a man trying to kidnap his 16- year-old daughter... and he was shot as he rushed over to save her. < sot :24 "...and to this very day." >(grant) (grant) (grant) (grant) (grant) investigators say, they have enough information from witnesses ... and details from the crime scenes... to connect deangelo to the visalia ransacker case. the 72-year-old has previously been charged with 12- killings throughout the state and is suspected of dozens of rapes in the 1970's.. across the bay area and california. (vicki) an oakland police officer is fighting for his life

here in tulare county he's thought to be "the visalia ransacker" who burglarized many and killed one father. farrel (like feral) ward is a retired exeter corporal who worked with deangelo from 1973 to 1976 (ward)"he was an educated idiot and he kind of laughed about it and i said you should be in the fbi, because he knew everything about everything."ward says he was in disbelief when he first saw his former co-worker's booking photo (ward)"working with a serial killer, you know, that's i mean, i guess i'm lucky to be alive and so are the other guys."(nats paul myers)"we're extremely lucky that we have these archives." the staff with exeter's sun gazette dug up this photo of 27 year old deangelo when he joined the city's police departmentreggie ellis says the ransacker case has long haunted this community(reggie ellis president & publisher, sun gazette)"just people thinking they knew who it was or always wondered about the guy down the street."(kay recede in tulare county)"ellis says the last time the visalia ransacker struck was in late 1975. months later, deangelo would join the aub

the crash.four people were unaccounted for, until this morning when 51 year old christi lewis from visalia was found dead.three people are still missing, one man and two women--kirra drury from ventura and her best friend raegan heitzig.the two posted these photos to instagram, celebrating the holiday weekend on the river. chris byrd, kirra drury's family friend :"we don't know. no one news what happened with kirra, but i'm hoping for the best."kirra's boyfriend lance nelson was also on the boat, but posted this picture the day after the crash, of the two of them kissing, with the caption "please come back, kirra"now the community of ventura is rallying behind kirra and raegan, setting up a go fund me page as family heads wait for word from officials. (grant) the search will resume tomorrow morning. nine people were hospitalized after the crash, including two with critical injuries. (vicki) happening now... tropical storm gordon is expected to continue strengthening over the next 24 hours...as millions of people along the gulf coast are preparing for what could become a category one hurric

the stabbing happened this afternoon near visalia...about 40 minutes south-east of fresno... police say two women got in a fight on the bus... three people were stabbed and the suspect was restrained by the bus driver and another passenger. witnesses describe what happened...(grant) all three victims were taken to the hospital... no word yet on how severe the injuries are. one person is in custody. ((vicki/landing vo))today is the deadline for congress to come up with a plan for undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children. they were protected by a program called daca which the president tried to end but was upheld by a san francisco judge.tonight congress still hasn't come up with a solution. ((ella in monitor)) kron 4's ella sogomonian is live in redwood city where frustrated san mateo county leaders came together. they're demanding that co