Conflicting accounts from pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters have complicated the investigation of 69-year-old Jewish man Paul Kessler's homicide in California.
California police have identified and searched the home of a pro-Palestinian counter-protester as their prime suspect in the death of Jewish Paul Kessler. No arrests have been made, however, as conflicting witness accounts complicate authorities' investigation. Kessler died hours after hitting his head on the pavement during the altercation with the unnamed suspect at competing street corner rallies on Sunday, police said.
Kessler was among around 100 people attending the diametric protests, the sheriff said. A witness who asked not to be named told Fox News Digital that Kessler had attended all three of the group's protests over the past three weeks and had gotten into at least one verbal altercation at the previous week's rally. Detectives obtained a search warrant for the 50-year-old suspect and pulled him over in Simi Valley around 4:58 p.m. on Monday, police said.
Police did not comment on their findings, or whether their suspect had a prior criminal record. The Ventura County District Attorney's Office would not comment on or share the probable cause affidavit for the warrant. 'We're conducting a thorough investigation,' the sheriff said. 'We want to make sure we have all the evidence that we need to if we're going to prosecute a suspect.
On Tuesday morning, a memorial had been set up outside the Shell gas station in Westlake where Kessler sustained his fatal injury.
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