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Article snippet: The Tampa Police Department will charge a 24-year-old man in a series of four killings that terrorized the Seminole Heights neighborhood, the police chief announced at a late-night news conference on Tuesday. Chief Brian Dugan identified the suspect, who was caught on Tuesday afternoon, as Howell Emanuel Donaldson III. Mr. Donaldson will be charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shootings, which occurred from Oct. 9 to Nov. 14, Chief Dugan said. Detectives were still putting together the charging documents as he spoke. Over seven weeks, the police had received more than 5,000 tips, Chief Dugan said, but the breakthrough came Tuesday afternoon, when one of Mr. Donaldson’s co-workers at a McDonald’s in the Ybor City neighborhood told a police officer that Mr. Donaldson had a firearm. In questioning, detectives linked Mr. Donaldson to the killings, but Chief Dugan would not provide any further details. “Someone stepped up and did the right thing, and that’s what we needed,” Chief Dugan said. The ordeal began on Oct. 9, when Benjamin Mitchell, 22, was shot at a bus stop. Just days later, Monica Hoffa, 32, was found dead in a vacant lot. On Oct. 19, Anthony Naiboa, 20, was shot a block away from the site of Mr. Mitchell’s killing. After that, almost a month passed with no similar killings — and then, on Nov. 14, Ronald Felton, 60, was shot less than half a mile from where Ms. Hoffa died. Between Mr. Mitchell’s death and Tuesday, 51 days elapsed. ... Link to the full article to read more