A man who was murdered in East Redding on August 29th has been identified by the Coroner’s Office as 71-year-old William Alan Dressler. At about 10AM last Thursday police got multiple calls about shots fired in the Wilshire Drive neighborhood near Brent Road. When officers arrived they found Dressler dead with a gunshot wound lying on the ground near a driveway. Witnesses described a man seen running away. Police focused in on the nearby home of 34-year-old Robert Parker Milton. He came out of the house with a gun in his hands, but was taken into custody without further violence. Police say Dressler had been walking when he was violently confronted. Milton is the son of former Redding City Council Member Missy McArthur. He remains in jail without bail.
-Steve Gibson