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Orange County woman attacked, man shot MISSION VIEJO (AP) An elusive serial killer struck again Sunday, expand ing his violent California trail into an Orange County neighborhood where a man was shot and a woman attacked, detectives said. The killer who terrorizes suburban homes at night, entering through an unlocked window or open sliding glass door, has been linked to 14 slayings and 35 assaults from Southern California to San Francisco. A distraught woman called deputies at 2:40 a.m. Sunday and said her boyfriend had been shot by a man in their Mission Viejo home, 55 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Orange County Sheriff's Lt. Richard Olson said a 29 year-old man suffered a bullet wound to the head and the woman was sexually attacked, similar to the wave of attacks by the man known as the “Night Stalker” and “Valley Intruder.’ The shooting victim, William Carns, 29, was in extremely critical condition after surgery at Mission Community Hospital, according to a nursing supervisor who asked not to be identified. Olson said the man was not expected to live. “We do believe it is the work of the ‘Night Stalker,’ '’ Olson said. The woman, also 29, was treated at Saddleback Hospital and released in good condition early Sunday, nursing supervi sor Janet Pitione said. Survivors of the killer’s attacks have described him as having curly black hair and badly stained and gapped teeth. Detective Frank Salerno of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which is spearheading the “Night Stalk er’’ investigation, joined Orange County authorities at the home but declined comment on the case. Until recently, the slayings blamed on the serial killer occurred only in Los Angeles County from Northridge, 27 miles northwest of downtown, to Diamond Bar, about 30 miles to the east. But ballistics tests linked him to the Aug. 17 slaying of San Francisco resident Peter Pan, 66, and the attempted killing of his wife, Barbara, 64. On Friday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block said the “Night Stalker’ had committed 33 attacks, including 14 murders. In San Francisco, where police ap pealed to the public for information, more that 500 telephone tips had come in by Saturday night. “We're getting a call every 10 sec onds,”’ Officer Jack Smoot said. The first assault in the case was reported Feb. 8 and the first staying March 17. ‘*Night Stalker’’ police drawing
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