Police: Man arrested in connection with 4 murders in Tampa neighborhood

The memorial to the three shooting victims in Tampa.
(Image credit: Les Neuhaus/AFP/Getty Images)

Tampa police announced Tuesday night that they will charge a 24-year-old man with four counts of first-degree murder in connection with a series of shooting deaths that rattled the Seminole Heights neighborhood.

Police received a tip Tuesday afternoon about a man with a gun inside a McDonald's in the Ybor City neighborhood, Police Chief Brian Dugan told reporters. Officers found the suspect, Howell E. Donaldson III, and detained him; a gun was recovered at the scene, Dugan said, but it's unclear if it was the gun used in one or more of the killings.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.