After a search of the area, Ramon was found in the 600 block of Broadway Avenue and placed under arrest for the Santa Monica assault.Upon an ongoing investigation, Los Angeles police said they believe Ramon is also the man who used a baseball bat to attack three separate homeless victims - all sleeping on downtown L.A. streets - on Sept. 16. A man identified as the suspect in the murder of two homeless men in Los Angeles may also be connected to the disappearance of two of his own family members in the Houston area, police sources say.Ramon Escobar was arrested Monday in connection with a series of baseball bat-beatings of homeless men as they were sleeping on the streets of downtown L.A.Eyewitness News has learned Escobar is wanted in connection to the disappearance of two siblings in the Houston area last month.Rogelio and Dina Escobar went missing in August within days of each other. He was finally found and arrested Monday night.Of the seven victims, police say three men died and two others remain in a coma. LOS ANGELES — The Latest on a man suspected in brutal beatings of homeless men in Southern California (all times local):

A man under investigation in brutal beatings of Southern California homeless men and the disappearances of relatives in Texas has a criminal record that includes assault. First Rogelio disappeared and then Dina went missing a few days later when she went to look for her brother.Investigators later found a burned-out vehicle on a Galveston beach connected to Dina Escobar.Sources say Dina is Ramon's mother and Rogelio is his uncle.Ramon's exact connection to their disappearance has not been detailed. Police in Los Angeles and Santa Monica have been investigating links between that attack and the downtown killings, but it remains unclear if there is any evidence tying Escobar to Cruze’s death.
Police in California arrest Ramon Escobar, 47, on charges of killing and assaulting homeless people, and are investigating whether he may have attacked a fisherman napping beneath a pier, in the cities of Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California. Authorities believe Escobar may be a serial killer, who is now a person of interest in the disappearance of his aunt and uncle in Houston, Texas.