FL - Manhunt in Tampa after 4 slayings in 5 weeks, Oct-Nov 2017 #2 *Arrest*

[Ray_of_hope]

(Good to see you Ray_of_hope :wave: .I see you still have your special avatar :heart: )

Good to see you too and such good news! Love my avatar you gave me

 

[Ray_of_hope]

Such a shocking and horrifying case.

 

[margarita25]

:busted:

 

[Ray_of_hope]

This story was written before they made the arrest today but still fallout from the killings.

http://www.tbo.com/news/publicsafet...-victim-now-dealing-with-her-husbands/2345298

 

[margarita25]

Man, I thought I read 9mm earlier...(??)

"The officer looked at the Smith and Wesson .40 inside and called for backup just before 3 p.m."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...link-florida-serial-killing-article-1.3663666

 

[margarita25]

"He studied sports management and in 2016 he allegedly worked as a “guest experience host” for the Mets, according to his LinkedIn page.

He was arrested at least once during his NYC stint but the details of the 2014 case in Manhattan was sealed, a police source said."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...link-florida-serial-killing-article-1.3663666

 

[Ray_of_hope]

An employee at the McDonald’s restaurant where Donaldson was arrested told the Tampa Bay Times that the suspect had worked at the location for four months. That employee, Gail Rogers, said that on November 28, Donaldson handed a loaded 9mm to a manager, asking him to hold it.

BBM

http://heavy.com/news/2017/11/howell-donaldson-seminole-heights-serial-killer-suspect/

 

[margarita25]

"Nor would police say if the gun they recovered from the McDonald’s was linked to any of the murders, or if it was the same caliber as the weapon used in those slayings. Jail records listed a .40-caliber Smith and Wesson handgun under each murder charge."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...-Man-24-faces-four-counts-of-murder_163084698

 

[margarita25]

http://heavy.com/news/2017/11/howell-donaldson-seminole-heights-serial-killer-suspect/

Thank you, was searching for this, I knew I read 9mm somewhere....

Sounds like it was a .40, and the employee maybe thought it was a 9.

 

[Ray_of_hope]

Man, I thought I read 9mm earlier...(??)

"The officer looked at the Smith and Wesson .40 inside and called for backup just before 3 p.m."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...link-florida-serial-killing-article-1.3663666

Good eye for detail. You did read that earlier

 

[Yellow Rose]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rvewing-suspect-Tampa-serial-killer-case.html
The alleged Tampa serial killer has been arrested and charged with murdering four people.
Howell Donaldson was arrested after police received a tip from a McDonald's staff member Tuesday afternoon about a man with a gun and brought him in for questioning.
The 24-year-old was brought in after a gun was recovered from the scene, according to WFLA.
Donaldson, who goes by Trai because it is a family name, has been charged with four counts of first degree murder. He is accused of fatally shooting Benjamin Mitchell, Monica Hoffa, Anthony Naiboa and Ronald Felton.
Gail Rogers works at the McDonald's with Donaldson, and told The Tampa Bay Times Donaldson walked into the restaurant in his work uniform and asked the manager to hold his loaded 9mm handgun.
He then walked to Amscot to get a payday loan, and the manager had Rogers alert a female officer in the McDonald's about what had just happened. That officer then called for backup

 

[Yellow Rose]

The daily mail article has pictures and videos as well.

 

[margarita25]

I hate to think what he might have been doing to people's food....

I wonder how far back that particular McD's employee surveillance videos go...you can bet LE is combing through every single one, analyzing timelines, etc etc...

(O/T, ISIS recruits have been called to "poison food"..just saying IF it turns out he turned radical Islam or something.)

Did you guys figure out what he's wearing yet in the arrest pic?

(Cough)

 

[margarita25]

His shirt says infantry?

CRO___Castles Bomb Squadron First Infantry
QUIET

Walmart shirt or for real?

( :lookingitup: )

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rvewing-suspect-Tampa-serial-killer-case.html

 

[Barbie619]

I'm incredibly happy that this arrest happened. I've prayed for this community and my prayers have been answered. Now the healing and grieving can begin.

 

[margarita25]

"Before the official announcement, police told the victims’ families.

Casimar Naiboa, whose son Anthony was the third victim, went to the McDonald’s that afternoon to see what was going on.

Hours later, Detective Austin Hill told the father the news.

"I was speechless," Casimar Naiboa said. "I was happy they finally got this guy, but at the same time, I couldn’t believe it.

"Finally, this nightmare is over."

While the news conference unfolded in downtown Tampa, he sat in his son’s room and talked about what the arrest meant to him.

"We are relieved, I am thankful for the police, for everybody, who supported the families in these moments of grieving and pain," the father said. "It is just a relief that finally this guy is off the street, no more scaring people, and hurting people. He won’t be killing anyone else and hurting families. Now we have to see the face of our son’s killer."

"Seeing this guy standing there, it hurts, it hurt me. This guy killed my son, this coward."

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...-Man-24-faces-four-counts-of-murder_163084698

 

[margarita25]

Dugan called and texted Kenny Hoffa the news. Monica Hoffa’s father said he was overjoyed. He intended to drive straight to Tampa from his home in Charleston, S.C.

"I know this is step one of this process," the father said. "Like the mayor said, I hope this guy rots in hell. What was this kid thinking. He was just 24 years old. I’ll be heading that way in the morning.""

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...-Man-24-faces-four-counts-of-murder_163084698

 

[margarita25]

""There is no closure, not really," Casimar Naiboa said. "It brings us relief that this guy is no longer laughing, walking free and walking around with impunity.

"My son will never have Christmas and things like that. I am sitting in my son’s room right now and my son is not there. I have my son’s TV, but he is not lying down. He is not going to work tomorrow. I cannot say anything to my son. There is never going to be closure."

Like the police chief, the father said that he, too, sensed a resolution was at hand. That’s what he told his son Anthony Naiboa earlier that day:

"I went to the cemetery this morning and I talked to my son right in front of his grave and told him that we would find this guy.""

http://www.tampabay.com/news/public...-Man-24-faces-four-counts-of-murder_163084698

 

[MzOpinion8d]

I just don't get it.

He's managed to elude police for 51 days, and apparently wasn't even on their radar.

So he decides to go to his work, driving a vehicle, and instead of leaving his gun in the car, and instead of driving his car to the paycheck place, takes his gun in and asks a co-worker to hang on to it while he goes to cash his check?

Why didn't he just drive to the check cashing place, leave the gun in the car, go cash his check and be on his merry way?

 

[Barbie619]

The POI was a walk-on player for the St. Johns Univ. basketball team in 2011-2012

I don't follow basketball so I don't know what "walk-on player" means...