American River Wildlife News
Parkway campers spooked
For the people who spend the most time in the American River Parkway, word that a man had been found strangled on a worn path in the park this week was unsettling.
"Being out here by yourself is just scary," said Stacie Stevenson, one of an estimated 500 people who live off and on in illegal camps throughout the parkway. "Out here, people just do what they want to do."
The discovery of 34-year-old Daniel Jimenez Mendoza's body Wednesday marked the second time in less than two weeks that a homicide victim was found near the bike path that intersects Del Paso Boulevard, police said.
Mendoza had been strangled and also suffered "blunt force head injuries," a coroner's report stated, and police are trying to trace his final steps.
Read the story from the Sacramento Bee.