Serial Killer Undone by Asking McDonald’s Co-Worker to Mind His Gun, Police Say

By artappraiser on Wed, 11/29/2017 - 7:40pm |

By Richard Penez-Pena @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 29

A man’s startling decision to have a co-worker hold on to his gun, and the co-worker’s instinct to alert a police officer, ended a killer’s reign of terror in Tampa, Fla., the police said on Wednesday, after arresting a man and charging him in four fatal shootings committed on the streets of a quiet residential neighborhood.

The accused gunman, Howell Emanuel Donaldson III, 24, has no prior criminal history, and even after interviewing him, investigators have no idea why he carried out the four apparently random, unconnected killings, Chief Brian Dugan of the Tampa police said. Mr. Donaldson was charged on Wednesday with four counts of first-degree murder; if convicted, he could face the death penalty.

“That firearm was used in all four murders,” Chief Dugan said [....]

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