

Dozens of people from the Tampa Bay area came together to mourn the deaths of Mitchell, Hoffa, Naiboa, and Felton on separate occasions, as well. Except for a grainy security cam video of a man in a hoodie, Tampa police had very few leads, and no suspects. They increased patrols in the area and issued a statement urging people to not walk alone at night. On October 13, police deduced that the murders of Mitchell and Hoffa were connected based on ballistic evidence showing bullets from both victims came from the same Glock handgun. He had been a volunteer at the food bank for more than a decade.


The victim, identified as Ronald Felton, was walking to the New Seasons Apostolic Ministries to meet the pastor to get ready to distribute food to families in need. on November 14, a 60-year-old man was crossing North Nebraska Avenue just north of East Caracas Street when the suspect came up behind him and fatally shot him. He was born in the Bronx, New York, and moved to Florida when he was nine years old.Īt about 4:50 a.m. He was the eldest of five siblings and child of Carmen Rodriguez and Casimar Naiboa.

He was walking toward a Route 9 stop when he was shot in the head and killed on the sidewalk. Anthony Naiboa ended up in the area after taking the wrong bus home from work. on October 19, on 15th Street near Wilder Avenue. Her body was found a half mile from where Mitchell was killed.Ī 20-year-old Hispanic man was shot dead at about 7:57 p.m. Police said there was no clear connection between Hoffa and Mitchell, the first victim. The shooting is believed to have happened late on October 11 or sometime on October 12. The victim, later identified as Monica Caridad Hoffa, a 32-year-old white female, was shot dead while walking to a friend's home. On the morning of October 13, a city landscape crew was about to mow an overgrown field in the 1000 block of East New Orleans Avenue when they stumbled upon a woman's body. Mitchell had left his home about a block away and was on his way to see his girlfriend.
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He is the first-known victim, chronologically, of the serial killer. The victim was identified as Benjamin Edward Mitchell, a 22-year-old African American man. Victims Benjamin Edward Mitchell Ī man was shot and killed at about 12:00 noon on October 9, 2017, as he was waiting at a bus stop near North 15th Street and East Frierson Avenue in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. On January 23, 2018, Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren announced his office would seek the death penalty against Donaldson. He pleaded not guilty to all charges five days later. Donaldson was indicted on the charges on December 7, 2017. Donaldson stated that the pistol belonged to him but did not state whether he had committed the killings. On that basis, police charged Donaldson with four counts of murder. Subsequent investigation revealed that the pistol may have fired the bullets used in the killings and that Donaldson's cell phone had been in the vicinity of the killings at the relevant times, while a search of Donaldson's vehicle found clothing similar to that seen in surveillance footage of the killing. and Rosita Donaldson, and raised in Tampa) after he handed a pistol in a bag to his manager at the McDonald's where he worked and instructed her to bury the bag without opening it. On November 28, 2017, police arrested North Carolina-born Howell Emanuel "Trai" Donaldson III (one of three children born to Howell Donaldson Jr. All four victims were shot dead seemingly at random. The Seminole Heights serial killer is an alleged serial killer who is believed to have murdered four people, three men and one woman, in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, in October and November 2017.
