August 24, 1985 - Dontae Morris
Over a span of roughly six weeks in the summer of 2010, Morris carried out a series of shootings in Tampa that left five people dead, including two police officers. The concentrated timeline and the targeting of law enforcement made the case unusually alarming for the city, and the resulting prosecutions produced three separate death sentences across two trials.
From Wikipedia
Dontae Rashawn Morris (born August 24, 1985) is an American serial killer who shot and killed five people in Tampa between May and June 2010. He was initially sentenced to three death sentences in two cases (10-CF-10203A in 2014 & 10-CF-10373A in 2015). After a 2016 change in Florida law requiring a jury to recommend death unanimously, Morris appealed all of his death penalty verdicts. In case 2010-CF-10203A, the murder of Tampa Police officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab, the jury had returned a unanimous verdict recommending death. As such, in 2021, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed his sentence of death in that case. In 2010-CF-10373, the murder of Derek Anderson, death was recommended by a majority, rather than unanimously. In 2021, Morris appealed and instead of retrying the case, State Attorney Andrew Warren elected to agree to re-sentencing Morris to life in prison on that case. Morris was also sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Rodney Jones.
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