A registered sex offender in California has been murdered in what police say was a targeted attack
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A registered sex offender in California has been murdered in what police say was a targeted attack.
Just before midday on September 18, 2025, the victim, a convicted child sex offender named David Brimmer, 71, was found gravely injured at his home by police after reports of a violent fight.
The suspect, who has been charged with murder, has been named as 29-year-old Varun Suresh.
Suresh and Brimmer did not know one another prior to the murder, and Suresh purportedly found his victim on California’s Megan's Law Website.
Megan’s Law
On July 29, 1994 , Megan was raped and murdered by her neighbor, Jesse Timmendequas, a previously convicted child molester who was living next door. Those in the community in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, were unaware of his prior convictions.
Timmendequas had destroyed the lives of several little girls before Megan, and in 1979, pleaded guilty to the aggravated sexual assault of a five-year-old child in Piscataway Township, New Jersey. He spent nine months in an Adult Correctional Center, before going on to assaulting another little girl in 1981.
He then spent six years at a New Jersey based Adult Diagnostic & Treatment Center. He was eventually released although a couple of the therapists that treated him believed he would reoffend. After raping and murdering Megan in 1994, he was sentenced to death, which was later changed to life in prison after capital punishment in New Jersey was abolished.
Megan's parents pleaded with the New Jersey General Assembly to pass a bill stating that a sex offender registry and database be available to the public, and that alerts to residents be made if a sex offender moves into a community.
The Independent reports that Brimmer had spent nine years in prison for "committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child."
Suresh, dressed as a certified public accountant (CPA), with notebook and coffee in hand, acted as though he was going door-to-door on the street where the victim lived on the 600 block of Upper Vintners Circle.
He later told police that he did this as he believed Brimmer may have been on edge “thinking someone was going to kill him.”
After answering the door, Brimmer told the suspect his name and extended his hand. Suresh allegedly said, “I knew I had the right guy,” before shoving him inside the house.
He purportedly told the victim that if he believed in God to “get his last words in.”
After a scuffle, Brimmer was able to flee the scene, and attempted to wave down a passing vehicle which neglected to stop. He carried on running, reaching a neighbour’s garage, and the struggle continued through to the kitchen.
Suresh continued pursuit, and allegedly lunged towards Brimmer, sinking a knife into the victim's neck while telling him to "repent."
Brimmer was still alive at this point and attempting to crawl away.
Suresh allegedly slit the victim’s throat, to make sure he had finished the job.
When police showed up, the victim was unresponsive and died from his injuries at the scene. Both Suresh and the suspected murder weapon were found nearby.
According to the Independent, Suresh had been arrested in 2021 for making a hoax bomb threat, making criminal threats, and leaving a suspicious bag at a Hyatt Place hotel because he wanted to kill the CEO of Hyatt as he “believed he was a pedophile”.
When asked why he killed the victim, Suresh said that he wanted to a kill a pedophile because they hurt children and "all deserve to die."
According to media outlets, Suresh allegedly said: "It is not your duty to decide whether heaven will accept them, it’s your duty to send them to the gates."
Investigation into the suspect revealed that he had screenshots of several profiles from the Megan's Law Website on his cell phone. Data showed that the screenshot of Brimmer's profile was taken less than an hour before the first call to emergency services.
Suresh purportedly told police that he had no intentions of evading the law after the crime, reportedly saying: “I’m hoping that because [the victim is] a pedophile… like, everyone hates pedophiles… so like, it should be cool. It should be cool.”
He added that if the police hadn’t of arrived at the scene, that he would have called them himself.
Media outlets covering the case report that according to investigators, the suspect did not feel sad or sorry for what he had done, and described it as "honestly, fun."