Yorba Linda Man to Receive $5,000 Reward

Orange County - A 32-year-old Yorba Linda man will receive a $5,000 reward today for helping catch a former Marine charged with stabbing to death four homeless men in Orange County.

Donny Hopkins, a married father of two, saw the alleged serial killer stab 64-year-old transient John Berry behind a Carl's Jr. restaurant at 5701 E. La Palma Ave. and chased him, said Kimberly Edds of the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, which offered the $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Union president Tom Dominguez will present Hopkins with the reward money at an afternoon news conference near where Berry was killed.

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas alleged Berry was targeted because he talked to a Los Angeles Times reporter for a story on the homicides. Berry told people before his death that he was being followed.

The deputies' union and the Anaheim Police Officers Association plan to donate $5,000 to Mercy House, which provides shelter and other services to the homeless.

Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, of Yorba Linda has been charged with murdering Berry, 53-year-old James McGillivray, 42-year-old Lloyd "Jim" Middaugh, and 57-year-old Paulus Cornelius "Dutch" Smith.