New Info, Tips In Flint Serial Killer Case

Genesee County authorities have updated their effort to find a serial killer who fatally stabbed five people and wounded eight others in the Flint area, while.

More than 175 tips have been called in by the public, as a task force combs out to find the killer.

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said early reports that the slasher was singling out black men were not entirely accurate.

"The victims, to date, have been both African American and white, and range in age from seventeen to sixty years of age," Leyton said.

There's also a chance the killer could be on the move with, with smiliar  stabbings being reported in Toledo and Leesburg, Virginia.

 Police in Toledo said there are some similarities, including a description of the assailant's vehicle.

The Toldeo victim tells police that the attacker was driving a dark green Chevy Blazer, got out and asked for directions and then began stabbing him in the stomach Saturday night.  Survivors of the stabbings in Michigan say the attacker would either ask for help with directions or a broken down vehicle.

In Leesburg, Police Chief Joseph Price said he is confident, though not certain, that the same man is responsible not only for the two stabbings and a hammer attack in his small town in the last week as well as the Michigan murders.

The victims in the Leesburg attacks were two African-American men and a Latino teen with a dark complexion. In Michigan, all but one of the 13 victims were black. 

Survivors have described their assailant as a muscular, young white man in his 20s or 30s, weighing 180 to 210 pounds. Police also say he usually wears a baseball cap during the attacks.

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