Natasha LaTour is the only survivor of the Stockton area serial killer tied to multiple attacks in 2022. She feels as though the authorities didn’t take her warning seriously when she told them of her April 2021 attack which syncs up with the 2022 murders.
The Only Survivor of Stockton Serial Killer Says Authorities Treated Her Like Trash When She Reported Attack in 2021
In speaking with 209 Times, LaTour said that on April 16, 2021 she was staying in a tent on Stockton’s Park and Union streets. Sometime after 3 AM, she was alerted to footsteps in the nearby gravel and those footsteps were getting closer.
Exiting her tent to investigate, she was confronted by someone wearing a black surgical mask and dark clothes. The person pointed a gun at her and opened fire, using the sound of a passing train to mask the gunshots.
LaTour’s location was a tricky one as her two escape routes were blocked off by a fence she wasn’t confident of climbing and a passing train. She opted to rush the shooter only for the shooter to kneel and fire at her with both hands.
The shooter would walk off after downing LaTour who says she’d been shot nine or ten times in the encounter. The survivor said that she figured no one would discover and get her treatment and rolled into the street. A passing couple stopped their vehicle and called 911.
Natasha LaTour was investigated by Stockton PD detectives and said:
“They basically treated me as if it was a drug deal gone bad. As if I knew something that I wasn’t sharing. Throughout this process, ever since April, ever since I got out of the hospital, it was constantly me trying to reach them.”
Over a year later with six shooting-related murders in Stockton being linked to a single shooter, she noticed the similarities to her encounter with the shooter. “Five people died because they didn’t listen to me,” LaTour said in the interview.
LaTour was the second linked victim of the Stockton area shooter. On April 10, 2021, less than a week before her shooting, 39-year-old Miguel Vasquez was shot and killed in East Oakland.
View Natasha LaTour’s interview below.
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