January 26, 1993 - Seminole Heights serial killer
Over roughly six weeks in the fall of 2017, four people were shot dead in the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa while walking alone at night, each killing appearing to have no motive beyond opportunity. The randomness of the attacks — and the absence of any apparent connection between victims — made the case both difficult to investigate and deeply unsettling to a community that had little way to protect itself. Donaldson's arrest came not through traditional detective work but through an inadvertent act of self-implication: handing a weapon to a coworker with instructions to hide it.
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Howell Emanuel "Trai" Donaldson III (born January 26, 1993) is a serial killer who was convicted of the 2017 murders of three men and one woman around the Seminole Heights neighborhood of Tampa, Florida. All four victims were shot dead seemingly at random. Prior to his arrest, the media called the killer the Seminole Heights serial killer.
On November 28, 2017, police arrested Donaldson 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. 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.
On that basis, police charged Donaldson with four counts of murder. Donaldson stated that the pistol belonged to him but did not state whether he had committed the killings. Donaldson was indicted on the charges on December 7, 2017.
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