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After 4 stabbing deaths in Calif., on top of deadly attacks in other states, comes a plea: 'This violence has to stop'

LOS ANGELES - Days after his wife filed to move their divorce forward, a Garden Grove man with a long rap sheet is suspected of having gone on what authorities describe as one of Orange County's worst binges of violence, robbing and stabbing his way south from his own apartment building, leaving four bodies and eight crime scenes in his wake.

First, police say, 33-year-old Zachary Castaneda ransacked his next-door neighbor's apartment. Then he allegedly terrorized the owner of a nearby bakery, walking off with her cash register when he couldn't get the machine open. After that, the man police describe as a known gang member doubled back to the first crime scene and apparently stabbed his neighbor and another man to death.

Over 2 1/2 hours Wednesday in attacks that became more brazen, Castaneda is suspected of terrorizing a swath of Santa Ana and Garden Grove,

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