Retired officer says US a different country from 5 years ago after spree of violent attacks on women

Five women have been attacked by strangers with criminal histories over the last three months in Nashville, Tennessee, as FOX 17 Nashville first reported.“We live in a different country than we lived in five, 10, 15 years ago than we do now,” Ken Alexandrow told Fox News Digital.Alexandrow is the founder of tactical training company Agape and a veteran Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) officer who spent three years as a member of the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force.The most recent attack was against 34-year-old Vanderbilt graduate Alyssa Lokits, who died after a stranger allegedly shot her while she was jogging on a pedestrian trail called Mill Creek Greenway in southeast Nashville.MNPD officers arrested Paul Park, 29, of Brentwood, and charged him with criminal homicide less than 24 hours after Lokits was found dead on the trail.

Authorities have not identified a motive for the seemingly random attack.According to Williamson County court records obtained by Fox News Digital, Park had a criminal background with two prior offenses. In 2017, Park was sentenced to probation as part of judicial diversion after a domestic assault arrest.Then, in 2018, Park was sentenced to 10 days in jail and supervised probation for violating his original probation sentence following his arrest for possession of drugs, with intent to manufacture, deliver or sell.One of the three drug charges was eventually dismissed as part of a plea deal and Park pleaded guilty to the other two drug charges.In August, two men with multiple priors allegedly attacked four different women in completely separate incidents, FOX 17 first reported.Jacob Harrison Thompson, 29, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape and attempted rape in connection with the attacks of a 29-year-old woman at her car and a 30-year-old woman in a restroom.

Both attacks occurred in downtown Nashville.Thompson was listed as homeless at the time of the two incidents.He previously received a 5...