Oceanside police are investigating after two homeless men were fatally beaten in separate attacks last weekend, and a third homeless man was nearly stabbed to death last month. Investigators do not know if there is any connection between the attacks, and do not have any information on potential suspects, Police Chief Kedrick Sadler said at a news conference Tuesday. “This (is) information that we want to get out to our vulnerable, unhoused community, being that they were the targets of these attacks,” Sadler said. The two most recent attacks share some similar circumstances in that both victims were homeless men in their 60s, both had sustained blunt force trauma, and both were found dead.  All three attacks happened within the last three weeks along a stretch near the coast less than two miles long, from train tracks near Oceanside Boulevard north to the San Luis Rey riverbed west of Interstate 5. The chief released little detail about the individual incidents, but noted the similarities, including that the victims were homeless, the relatively close proximity of the locations and the deadly level of violence. Sadler said investigators have no information that one person may be behind all three attacks. The first incident happened shortly after 4:15 a.m. Sept. 18, when a man was stabbed near Coast Highway and the San Luis Rey riverbed. The 45-year-old victim had been stabbed several times, but survived his injuries. He did speak with detectives, but Sadler declined to share what the man said. The second attack was reported more than two weeks after the stabbing. Someone called police shortly before 4:45 p.m. Saturday to report a person found dead near the railroad tracks along Oceanside Boulevard and Coast Highway, roughly a mile south of the Oceanside Transit Center. The 65-year-old man had sustained blunt force trauma. The next day, about 11:30 a.m. Sunday, someone called to report finding a man dead in the brush along the San Luis Rey riverbed, near the bike path west of the freeway. The 60-year-old man also had sustained blunt force trauma. The attacks prompted police to step up patrols in areas were unhoused people are known to frequent, and officers are talking to people face to face to let them know about the attacks and steer them toward resources. The chief urged unhoused people in the community to stay alert, stay together, travel in pairs or groups, and avoid sleeping alone. “Sleeping alone can increase vulnerability, so seek companionship whenever possible,” he said. The region’s annual Point In Time count of unhoused people found about 360 unsheltered people living in Oceanside. Sadler said the three attacks on homeless men are not related to attacks near Oceanside Harbor on a Saturday night in August, when two people with baseball bats beat several men. Police later arrested two men, and said they believed those incidents were gang-related. The region has seen attacks targeting homeless people in recent years, including a bizarre, brutal and deadly spree in 2016 that left four dead and others injured. A mentally ill San Diego man later admitted to the attacks, pleaded guilty to murdering four people and assaulting nine others. Three of the slain victims had railroad spikes hammered into their bodies. Oceanside police asked that anyone with information about any of the three attacks call Detective Sgt. David Estrada at 760-435-4698 or email him at [email protected].