Dallies’ Killer Tied to 2nd Attack : Investigation: Santa Ana, Garden Grove police say same man who killed officer also shot a security guard. FBI psychological profile offers insights into suspect.

Investigators believe the same gunman who killed a Garden Grove officer during a routine traffic stop also shot and severely wounded a security guard at a Santa Ana apartment complex almost two months earlier, police said Wednesday.

A psychological profile of the man indicates that he is confrontational with authorities, attacks without provocation and does not care about his own safety or the safety of others, police said. Evidence shows he may be a vehicle thief and may hang around apartment complexes during the early morning hours.

“The only confrontations he’s had with authority figures, he has come out on top,” said Garden Grove Sgt. George Jaramillo. “He’s killed one and wounded the other. . . . He’s a coldblooded killer.”

Officer Howard E. Dallies Jr., 36, was shot and killed by a motorcyclist he had stopped on March 9. Security guard Rene Carpio, 24, was shot repeatedly on Jan. 19 at an apartment complex he was patrolling.

Both shootings occurred about 3 a.m. on a Tuesday and may have involved stolen vehicles.

Police describe the shooter as white, about 20 to 25 years old. Police said the man is about 5-foot-8 to 6 feet tall, weighs 170 pounds, has blond hair worn in a ponytail past his shoulders, and is clean-shaven with acne on both cheeks. He wore a light blue baseball cap during the Carpio attack.

Jaramillo said the gunman had a chance to flee after he was first contacted by both victims, but he did not. Police also said they have been provided a psychological profile by the FBI, but they declined to discuss it in detail.

Through interviews with Carpio and a brief description by Dallies before he died, a police artist drew a composite of what the man may look like.

Police said the sketch is a major step in the investigation into the slaying of Dallies, who was with the department nine years before he was shot several times after he stopped a motorcyclist on Aldgate Avenue. He was killed by a bullet that struck him in the stomach just below the protective vest he was required to wear.

Garden Grove police, which created a 30-member task force that has gone through more than 1,000 leads in the Dallies slaying, began investigating a possible link between the two shootings in late March, shortly after Santa Ana police circulated an informational flyer to other police departments about their case.

Investigators from both police departments compared evidence and concluded that the same man was involved in both shootings. They would not elaborate.

In the Santa Ana shooting, Carpio was alone on foot patrol at the apartment complex in the 3200 block of South Main Street when he approached a man who was loitering in carports, police said.

Carpio spoke briefly to the man, who then walked away, to Sycamore Street near Columbine Avenue. Carpio followed and approached the man a second time as he was about to get into a white pickup truck.

Without warning, the man spun around and shot Carpio repeatedly, then fled in the truck, described as similar to a Ford Ranger or Chevrolet S-10 with damage near the left rear wheel, police said.

Carpio, who was unarmed and lives with his parents in Costa Mesa, was shot in the left leg, left hip and face, family members and hospital officials said. He has undergone numerous surgeries, had his left leg amputated and has severe damage to his trachea, making speaking painful or impossible at times, family members said.

He communicated with detectives through notes or hand gestures to help with details of the sketch, police said.

“This has traumatized the family,” said his father, Francisco Carpio.

Police said they were checking to see if the man they seek may be connected to other crimes or shootings in Orange County or elsewhere.

Garden Grove and Santa Ana police said they do not have a weapon and refused to talk about what type of gun was used in either shooting. But Carpio’s father said a Santa Ana police report he read listed the attacker’s weapon as a .380-caliber handgun.

Police asked anyone who might recognize the attacker to avoid contact with him and call police. Police departments statewide have been sent details of the Dallies case and the man’s description.