Young man enraged by the homeless before being charged with execution at squalid RV camp

A young construction worker angry at the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles has been charged with the the murder of a petty thief and heroin addict, prosecutors say.Vincent Wolf, 23, ranted on Instagram about homeless people before he was charged with shooting dead Travis Harker, 29, on August 5th, in the San Fernando Valley.Wolf, who lived with his mother and aunt in a apartment complex off Foothill Boulevard next to a rundown RV encampment, made numerous posts about the homeless.

“They s**t and piss on the street,” Wolf wrote on Instagram in August, according to the police search warrant affidavit, which was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in August.  “They do drugs in the middle of the night.They f***ing screamed for no reason.

And most importantly violent.“It’s all corrupt politicians left nor right,” Wolf wrote, according to the affidavit, “Elderly people in the young don’t deserve none of this.”Prosecutors alleged it was these feelings about the homeless outside his second-floor apartment that drove him to an act of violence.When he was first arrested, Wolf told police he killed Harker in self-defense, the LA Times reported.But when he was told there was surveillance footage, he changed his story.Los Angeles Police Det.

Benyamin Sadeh, who investigated the homicide, told the LA Times that Harker was a heroin addict known to break into parked cars.Records show Harker previously did time for drug possession and grand theft.

In August he was arrested for allegedly being in possession of heroin, cocaine, and financial documents belonging to two women.He was released from jail after promising to appear at his arraignment.

Five days later he was dead.Sadeh said Wolf told police that Harker had threatened to stab him and his dog.But police said that video from a nearby business showed Harker was only fiddling with something on a table outside the RV when Wolf came around the side and shot him.Sadeh said there was “zero” confro...