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Lyndon Blake
We're at McDonald's on a Tuesday afternoon in Ybor City, Florida. Ybor is this historical pocket in downtown Tampa. It's known for its Cuban food, its cigars, and you see tourists walking through the streets. It's a warm, sunny day in Florida, the best kinds of days in the Sunshine State. This McDonald's smells like and looks like every other McDonald's. Honestly, you're in and out as quickly as the workers can make your combo. At this McDonald's, there's a slender and tall black man who's been working at the fast food place for four months now. He walks outside taking a break, but after seeing police, he quickly ducks back inside the McDonald's. This man is tall, he's skinny, but he's athletic. He looks like he could be a D1 basketball player, which is exactly what he was at St. John's University. This slender man goes up to his boss and McDonald's manager, Delanda Walker. He hands her a plastic McDonald's food bag and he tells her not to look inside and to keep it somewhere safe. He'll be right back. He's just cashing a check across the street before he goes out of state. No big deal. Then he walks outside of the McDonald's again. Delanda feels the bag is heavy and she feels something hard on the inside. So she takes it into the back room and opens up the bag and she sees a gun and wrapped in, of all things, napkins. Delanda walks back to the front of the fast food joint, scanning the crowd, when she sees a policewoman sitting at a table just eating her lunch. Delanda sees Officer Randy Whitney. She's grabbing a rare lunch at a place that's most convenient. She's eating quickly, eyes on her phone. She's reviewing a suspect video. Delanda immediately scurries over to Officer Randy, who not loud, not dramatic, but very, very urgent. She tells Randy there's a bag and there's a gun and a slender man who just walked out the door, all delanda can think about is a neighborhood just a few miles away over in Seminole Heights, brimming with unsolved murders. Did she find the killer? Can police catch him this time? Lyndon I'm Lyndon Blake and this is a Daily Wire True Crime Investigation. It's October 3, 2017. A young, tall and slender man walks into a large gun shop called Shooter's World on East Fletcher Avenue. The shop's about nine miles north of Tampa. And he made the drive to buy a pistol. He purchases a.40 caliber Glock and four days later on October 7th, he's able to pick up the weapon. After that man, mandatory waiting period that he has to go through. While he's there, he grabs a 20 round box of 40 caliber ammunition. All this legal activity, of course. The neighborhood of Seminole Heights sits just north of downtown Tampa. I'm going to paint the picture for what it's like. You have these old houses, but new restaurants, there's brew pubs, you have narrow streets and there's some lots that are overgrown. But it's a trendy, hip area. I lived in Tampa around this time and Seminole Heights had those cute Airbnbs. And a lot of times I would suggest my friends like, hey, when you're coming to town to stay in one of those in Seminole Heights. This is a neighborhood that you know is up and coming. But like most pockets on the rise, there are still some areas of crime, but we're talking mostly like car break ins, stuff like that. In Seminole Heights, people walk their dogs, they stroll their kids, they take the bus when they have to. They stand under streetlights that don't always work while they're waiting for an uber. It's Monday, October 9, 2017, and it's about 8:50pm 22 year old Benjamin Mitchell is at a bus stop on 15th street, roughly a block from his home. He's just waiting, listening to hip hop, waiting for the bus to come on so he can hop on and go see his girlfriend. While he's doing this, he's thinking about his dad and November 2nd, that's just 24 days away. November 2nd, that's an important date to Benjamin because it's the day his father is retiring, packing up his bags in Las Vegas and joining him in Tampa. Benjamin works during the day at Ikea. He works with his girlfriend actually. And at night he goes to classes at Hillsborough Community College. And, and he is very close to graduating with an associate's degree. Life is good, but Benjamin is still missing being around his father. They've Talked for years about reuniting and living together in Florida. And now they actually have a date to make it happen. Benjamin is obviously incredibly excited. So it's almost 9pm When a neighbor, Yahya Bey, hears four pops outside. first he thinks it's fireworks, but he still decides to go look out his front door. Yariel then sees Benjamin just lying on the ground at a bus stop across the street. He's still wearing his black headphones and there's blood pouring from his stomach. Yariel rushes to call 91 1. He stays there with Benjamin until police and paramedics arrive. Benjamin can't talk and when he does try to speak, his mouth just makes this, his hissing sound. Paramedics take him to the local hospital and unfortunately that's where Benjamin dies from those gunshot wounds. Police, they're able to quickly tape off the crime scene. They start knocking on doors in Seminole Heights. People are answering because remember, it's only 9pm it's nowhere close to the hour of the night where people are starting to think, oh, only bad things can happen now. So while neighbors talk to police, investigators are able to recover two.40 caliber casings. But detectives don't find an obvious motive as to why someone would want to take Benjamin's life. Houses in Seminole Heights. They're close together, so it's not long before police find a camera a nearby house that has some surveillance video. The footage shows a tall, slender person wearing a hooded shirt fiddling with his cell phone while walking eastbound towards 15th Street. That's about eight to 10 minutes before Benjamin is killed. This figure moves casually in this grainy camera recording. You see that he has no urgency, really in no hurry whatsoever. But he does have an unusual gait. This person has very long legs, noticeably long legs. So when they're walking it's like they're almost having to work harder to pick the legs up so it stand out on video. Minutes later, seconds after the murder, another clip from the same security system catches the same person running away. This time the person's going west after the shooting in the opposite direction. And this right now is big for the investigation. So police are able to release this grainy video to the public and they're able to call him a person of interest. Still, at this point, the shooting sounds like something homicide detectives deal with all the time. 32 year old Monica Hoffa is waiting tables at an IHOP about 15 minutes from her home in Seminole Heights. Monica also works another job on her days off from ihop. She's helping this new seafood restaurant open its doors. And she's doing everything. She's painting the walls, she's setting up the tables, and she plans to waitress there, too, after it opens. Monica's mom is deaf. So in between these jobs, Monica is heavily involved with the deaf community, helping any way she can. In the past, though, Monica's had her struggles. She was caught with four Xanax pills with no prescription earlier this year. And then last year, she left the scene of a car crash, and she lost her driver's license and was on probation. But she's finding her footing and she's working really hard. After finishing that long IHOP shift, Monica shares an Uber ride home with a co worker the coworker dropped off first. Then Monica makes a stop at a family dollar for just a few things on her way home. When she gets home, she puts those family dollar items away, and then she texts her friend that she's coming over. Her friend conveniently lives three blocks away in Seminole Heights. So Monica is able to walk there. She grabs her things, and that's when Monica leaves her house. It's Wednesday, October 11, and later that night, after Monica leaves her home at 8:47, you hear 911 calls coming in from Seminole Heights. Neighbors near North 11th street and East Orleans Avenue report hearing multiple gunshots, but responding officers don't find anything. Then two days later, on Friday morning, October 13th, the city landscape crew is about to mow an overgrown field when they stumble across Monica's body just lying there in the tall grass. She's near where those gunshots have been heard, and she's been shot once in her neck and twice in her back. And she lays dead only a half a mile from where Benjamin died just a few days before. At both of the crime scenes, investigators find several bullet shell casings. All are Sig Sauer, and they bear marks that indicate they've been fired from the same gun, a.40 caliber Glock.
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Narrator/Announcer
Now, at this point, police believe that the two shootings could be related. They believe the victims did not know each other. So they're also saying this could be happening at random.
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Lyndon Blake
Two murders the same area. The phrase serial killer begins to spread. The fear now is starting to set in. Residents are obviously hesitant to leave their homes at night. Restaurants are actually refusing to send their delivery drivers to Seminole Heights. Police patrol cars become a constant presence in the neighborhood. Right now, a historic Tampa neighborhood is
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Ryan Reynolds
lit up as police are urging families to turn on their porch lights and remain extra vigilant.
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Commercial Narrator
It's pretty scary out there right now. Officers, they're not ready to rule out that a gunman is possibly shooting people at random.
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Lyndon Blake
So now police are asking neighbors to not walk alone because it's becoming clear that these two killings are connected in this neighborhood. People are having to change their routines. Less walks, more rides, less bus. Residents are having to be hyper alert to every little sound and change in the air, even changing holiday plans with their families.
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Witness/Family Member
I'm not taking my kids out. We're going to stay home and I'll make candy bags at the house.
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Narrator/Announcer
No, we were planning on going trick
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Lyndon Blake
or treating, and we're not going to be doing that in this neighborhood this year. In the days following the murders, you have Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Police Chief Brian Dugan taking to the sidewalks themselves. They're trying to show their commitment to a neighborhood that has been shaken to its core. And as Halloween approaches, remember, we're in October. They even walk alongside children as a trick or treat. They're hoping to ease families fears and try to bring a sense of normalcy back to the community.
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Narrator/Announcer
We have officers that were handing out candy to these kids just a couple of minutes ago.
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Lyndon Blake
So the city and community are working together right now to install and repair hundreds of streetlights after the killings because darkness has become a huge part of the threat here. You have the killings happening out in the open, but they're happening at night. But fixing these streetlights, it's slow work. And to the community, every second counts. The clock is ticking. A local group launches this initiative. It's called Light the Heights. They're urging Seminole Heights neighbors to string up holiday lights, the kind that hang down like icicles on your porch. Not necessarily for curb appeal for Christmas, but to simply to try to make the streets safer. Mayor Buckhorn actually told the community this at a meeting. He said, just like after Hurricane Irma, that happened just a couple of weeks prior to this, we're going to get through this. Hurricane Irma, if you remember, a Category 3 storm, it had just brushed through Tampa. The hurricane left piles of debris that are obviously still lining the streets of Seminole Heights and a lot of streets around the Tampa Bay area. But in some places in Seminole Heights, the debris is so dense, the neighbors are worried someone could be hiding in that. The city of Tampa is worried about more hideouts for the killer. So they're going through Seminole Heights and they're boarding up any abandoned homes. And still there are no answers.
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Reporter/News Anchor
It's just dangerous. It's dangerous to be out here. I mean, you know, you don't know who this guy is, he's got a gun. His purpose is just to kill people. We're moving our business, we're moving. We can't do this.
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Lyndon Blake
Talking to the New York Times, Mayor Buckhorn says whoever's doing this hasn't left any kind of evidence you'd expect. It's almost like grabbing mist. Now that is not what you want to hear. If you live in Seminole Heights, It's Thursday, October 19th. Around 7:57 at night, you have 20 year old Anthony Nyboa. He's a guy that takes a lot of pride in his new job. He's packing up food to send to victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. And Anthony is just a precious boy. He wears glasses, he's beloved by his family. He's autistic. But that doesn't stop him from living his life. After his warehouse shift ends, Anthony calls his stepmom like he often does. He usually meets his stepmother Maria at her job and then they both take the bus together home. But on October 19, Anthony forgets that his stepmom isn't working that day. On the phone, his stepmom tells him to ride the bus by himself and just come straight home. There's no time for extracurriculars during this scary time in Seminole Heights. About 30 minutes later, Anthony somehow gets off at the wrong bus stop. This bus stop is about three miles from his family's home. So Anthony walks north on 15th street to the next bus stop. On that same street walks the slender man who sees Anthony and fires his.40 Glock pistol. That one shot hit Anthony's head and Anthony dies alone right there on the sidewalk. Keep in mind you have police officers patrolling the area heavily at this point. They hear the gunshots and they quickly head toward the sound. But even with their prompt response, they were just too late. The shooter isn't there. And now There is a third murder in Seminole Heights, 100 yards from where victim number one, Benjamin Mitchell, died just 10 days earlier. Unaware of everything that just happened, Anthony's father and stepmother, they continue prepping a family dinner. And they're sitting the meal out on the table. And while they're doing this, they're still wondering, when's Anthony going to get home? There's no signs of him and they're starting to grow a little anxious. Then Anthony's parents turn on the 10 o' clock news.
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News Reporter
Some breaking news in Tampa. A body found tonight in the street. Same Seminole Heights neighborhood where two murders took place last week. This is really frightening and troubling for the People who live there.
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Lyndon Blake
It's not too much long after that when Maria and Kasmir find out the victim is Anthony.
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Anthony Nyboa's Stepmother Maria
I can't talk to him. I can't see him. I can't hug him. I can't. Cause I can't do nothing because he's not home. And it's just because of this. It's frustrating because they haven't even caught this criminal. And deep down inside, I feel the. The same person that this witness has said, I feel deep down inside that that person killed my boy and they need to get him off the street. They really do.
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Lyndon Blake
Three homicides in less than two weeks, all unsolved. And authorities believe this is all linked. But there's no obvious connection except their proximity and the manners of death. All three of the victims were walking alone in a quiet neighborhood when they were gunned down. So far, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan has purposely avoided the term serial killer because it's too specific of a phrase to use, given how little the investigators know. But Dugan does think the killings are connected.
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Police Chief Brian Dugan
Everybody wants to know, is there a serial killer? I have purposely avoided that because there's a stereotype associated with killer serial serial killers. It may not be a white person, may not be a male. It could be a black person, maybe a female. How do we know there's not two stepbrothers living in a house and they're doing it together?
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Lyndon Blake
During a roll call earlier in the week, Mayor Buckhorn gives a pretty blunt command to his officers. He's not taking over this neighborhood. He's not taking over these streets. You guys go hunt him down and bring his head to me. But Tampa's top cop can't point to any good leads.
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Police Chief Brian Dugan
This pains me to tell you that if you're out there walking alone, that you're either a suspect or a potential victim.
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Lyndon Blake
More Tampa police officers flood the street, scouring for witnesses. They're reviewing home security cameras for signs of the killer. And they're trying to reassure nervous neighbors that they are safe and to continue to live their lives. But how can they act normal? Three people gunned down. And even though there's a slender man on a camera, with investigators actively working around the clock, the killer isn't caught. The terrors still persist. But for the first time in 10 days, the killings stop as abruptly as they started. And the city waits for what's next. So I lived in Sarasota during these days of terror. I was a news reporter, and this was our top story every day. And just a few Months earlier, I was actually living in Tampa, and I would hang out in Seminole Heights on Monday nights. I'd feed the homeless, we'd line up all this food, and it was something we did every single Monday before a quick little church service. It was a place, like I mentioned earlier, that I would recommend to my friends. They would ask if this is a safe place. I would say, yeah, book the Airbnb. You can take a quick Uber downtown to the concert venue. And it was one of those things. When these killings started to happen, you were like, if it could happen here, it can happen anywhere. And so reporting on the story every day, you would keep it together, you would give the updates. But in my personal life during this time, I wouldn't go run outside. I completely stopped something I did every single day. But I was like, you know what? I don't trust this right now. There's no telling where this killer could strike next. He could drive 15 minutes, he could drive an hour down I75. You just didn't know. So these are the changes that were happening really in everyone's life in that whole area. You were trying to keep it together. You were trying to live your life, but you were very anxious about where the killer could strike next. It's Tuesday, November 14th. It's about 4:50 in the morning, well before the sun comes up. And it's been weeks of peace, and Tampa residents find themselves somehow already in November. Ronald Felton is 60 years old, and he's out this morning riding his bike. Ronnie, as they call him, is tied to a routine most people never see because it happens while they're sleeping. He likes to show up early to volunteer at his church's food pantry. He loves feeding the homeless. It hasn't all been pure bliss, though, for Ronnie. He's been homeless himself in the past. He's had some felonies and some trouble with drugs and the law, but he got back on his feet. He spent the last 25 years at the Alfred Construction Company. Then 11 years ago, he found Jesus. Now he loves volunteering, along with his best friend and his twin brother, Reggie. It takes a special kind of person to wake up at the crack of dawn to go work at a food pantry. But that's Ronnie. He gives everyone in the line at the pantry a hug this morning. It is who he is, and he's trying his best to comfort those who are living in fear over these killings. In Seminole Heights, around 4:15am he walks across the street to call Reggie, and he uses the bathroom at Mike's Laundromat. A surveillance video camera from a nearby business is pointed towards the 5100 block of Nebraska Avenue. Ronnie starts walking back over to the food pantry. Coming out of the shadows now is a slender black man who steps forward and ambushes Ronnie, shooting him from behind. That man takes off running. And once again, surveillance videos from nearby capture this slender man. But this time, the camera captures the shooting as it's happening. Police immediately swarm the area. There's lights flashing. They're locking down this crime scene in minutes. And they're starting an intense manhunt for the murderer. But despite this excellent response time, officers can't find a suspect. However, this time police don't come up completely empty handed. They're able to find a witness who saw the gunman and is able to give a very distinct description of the shooter. A black male, 6 foot to 6 foot 2, with a thin build and a light complexion, armed with a large black pistol. He was last seen wearing all black clothing. And just like the other three murders, Ronnie is killed with a.40 caliber pistol.
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News Reporter
Governor Rick Scott is now directing the highway patrol to send more troopers to the neighborhood. This as the reward in the case jumps to $100,000.
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Lyndon Blake
At this point, there's no avoiding the word now. This is a serial killer. A serial killer is on the loose in Seminole Heights. But whatever you call the murderer, the outcome is the same. You have four families, four funerals in a neighborhood still gripped with fear.
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Narrator/Announcer
ABC Action News crews catching up with FBI tactical teams going door to door, telling people to open up as they searched homes and yards. Armed and meticulous families here now feeling scared but saying they understand why it's come to this.
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Interviewer/Reporter
And the only way to contain a situation like this is just to know the neighborhood.
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Lyndon Blake
And while all this panic is real, the suspect is still just a figure on the video. Police Chief Dugan says just the thought of another killing keeps him up at night. It's been two weeks of silence, and now it's five days after Thanksgiving. Tuesday, November 28th. It's around 2:38 in the afternoon. We're back at that McDonald's in Ybor City with McDonald's manager Delanda and officer Randy looking inside that McDonald's plastic food bag. They're looking down at a loaded.40 caliber Glock with Sig Sauer ammunition. Delanda tells Randy that the slender man told her he's preparing to leave town because he'd done something bad that he could not take back. Delanda says employee's name is Donaldson Howell. Donaldson III Randy grabs her radio and calls it in. Her voice is steady as she gives responding officers the suspect's name and a description of his red Mustang. Within moments, backup starts to arrive. Minutes later, delanda steps in the back office, then suddenly rushes back out. She's panicked and she is screaming, he's here. He's here. She looks out the door glass, then turns to the front counter staff, urgently warning them to not let him in. But Randy's cutting her off. She is saying, no, we want him. Randy moves quickly toward the front door. Outside, Captain Stout is already in position. As soon as the man approaches, Stout is able to tackle him to the ground. Within seconds, the two officers pin the slender man down and snap on handcuffs. Officers emplace the cuffs. Donaldson in a McDonald's chair. Not long after, he gives detectives permission to test fire the weapon and to search his phone. What they find is pretty hard to ignore. They find location data that places his phone in Seminole Heights at the exact times of the murders. And then the final piece. Firearms analysts confirm the gun is a match. The pistol matches the shell casings recovered from the crime scenes.
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Police Chief Brian Dugan
I am pleased to announce that tonight we will be making an arrest in the Seminole Heights murder.
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Reporter/News Anchor
Our affiliate capturing the moment. He was taken into custody outside a local McDonald's where he works. Peabo Johnson says Donaldson has worked at the McDonald's for two to three months.
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Lyndon Blake
It's kind of crazy. I mean, that he was here with us the whole time. Who is this killer? Who is Howell Donaldson III? Well, we told you he was a Division 1 basketball player at St. John's but before, before that, he was a standout high school basketball player in the Tampa Bay area. He finished up his high school career at Alonzo. Then he moved up to New York, where he walked on at St. John's which is a basketball powerhouse as of late. He rode the bench for the season. He was there. But even to do that at a school like St. John's you're pretty good at basketball. And his teammates there said that Trey, which is what they called him, was cocky, but he was never violent. They were shocked that he was even associated with these heinous crimes. When Donaldson returned back to Tampa after graduating from St. John's with a degree in sports management, he actually spent time coaching kids in basketball. He would give kids private lessons at Trinity School in Tampa. This was shocking for parents to learn because their kid comes home with a letter being like, hey guys, this suspect and this serial killing in Seminole Heights was on our school property. He did Interact with students and parents were like, wow, my kids loved Trey, as they would call him. They saw no warning signs at all. He grew up with his parents. He was living with his parents at the time of the shooting. This is a guy that just seemed like he had everything going for him in life.
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Police Chief Brian Dugan
The PC, Obviously the same thing.
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Interviewer/Reporter
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Police Chief Brian Dugan
When did you play there?
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Interviewer/Reporter
0708 0809. And then I transferred the plant.
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Police Chief Brian Dugan
Oh, okay. So you finished up a plant?
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Interviewer/Reporter
No, I finished up at.
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Lyndon Blake
Alonzo Donaldson goes with detectives to police headquarters to talk about the gun. He consents to the search of his car, his phone, and he allows the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to take a real good look at the weapon. He's very calm, not worried one bit about what this all could mean for him. Donaldson tells investigators that he purchased the Glock and the ammunition at Shooter's World on East Fletcher Avenue. And he insists that no one else had access to the gun. He also says he doesn't know the Seminole Heights neighborhood. He says he has no connections there at all. But then the technology starts telling its own stories. There's the phone data that puts him in Seminole Heights during the exact time frame of the first three murders. And call records back it up. Within minutes of each killing, his phone is pinging off towers covering the same areas where the victims were all found. Investigators search his car, that red Mustang. They find clothing that closely matches what's seen in those grainy surveillance videos. And on the clothes, you see what appears to be a blood stain. And then you have what I think is the most critical piece of all, the smoking gun. They're able to test that.40 caliber Glock, and the results are definitive. The shell casings recovered from the first three murder scenes were all fired from that very gun. Casings from the fourth murder aren't available for direct comparison, but investigators had already determined that they were fired from the same weapon as the others. And then finally, you have the purchase records. Donaldson buys the Glock, picks it up after the waiting period, and that same day, he purchases a box of.40 caliber Sig Sauer ammunition. It's weeks later, and Donaldson is booked in jail on murder charges. In a room full of law enforcement and community members, it is finally time for McDonald's manager, Delanda Walker, to be celebrated. She stands quietly as her name is called. Then comes the applause. It's loud, it's sustained. It is impossible to ignore. She gets a standing ovation because she is the woman that ended the Seminole Heights terror. So police got together and they made the decision that Delanda would get every bit of the $110,000 reward for her bravery in that McDonald's. In the case that was defined by violence and uncertainty, it was just an ordinary citizen who brought it to a close. One observation and a quick decision and, of course, the courage to act.
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Witness/Family Member
You swear, lady, you're about to be able to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
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Reporter/News Anchor
I do.
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Lyndon Blake
Now It's January of 2018. Prosecutors make their position, and they seek the death penalty. From that point, everything slows down. The case of Howell Donaldson III winds through the court system. Years pass in motions, arguments, evidence, fights. And the families have to show up and show up and show up, reliving their worst nightmare. In 2020, a judge rules, Donaldson will face four separate trials, one for each killing. So now you have four juries, four chances for families to relive the horror of what happened. But that day just never comes. On May 1, in 2023, just before the trial is about to start, the case takes a sudden turn. And it ends. No judge, no jury, no testimony. Instead, you have a plea deal. How? O' Donnellson III pleads guilty to four counts of first degree murder. The sentence? Four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. The death penalty, that's off the table. There's no trials. There's no answers. Just an ending on paper and a life sentence for the perpetrator. Officials knew a lengthy trial would be painful. Then you have a lengthy appeals process that would follow the death sentence versus the finality that a life sentence would bring.
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Witness/Family Member
You're adjudicated guilty, sentenced to life in the Florida State prison with a 25 year ban.
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Lyndon Blake
Mayor Bob Buckhorn acknowledged while a plea deal can never heal the broken hearts of the families, it can help bring closure. It's an ending, but this isn't a key. This doesn't unlock the why. To me, the hardest part of this case is not what we know, but it's what we don't know. There was never any clear motive here. There was no obvious thread connecting the victims. There was not a single moment that you can point to and say, that's why this person did this. And now you have four families who will go the rest of their lives grieving on birthdays, holidays, just random days when the pain hits them out of nowhere. It's one of those cases that just falls in the senseless violence category, leaving a lively neighborhood forever haunted by those 51 days. I'm Lyndon Blake, and this is the Daily Wire. True crime investigation.
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