TAMPA, Fla. — A 24-year-old man accused of fatally shooting four people in Tampa's Seminole Heights neighborhood will remain jailed without bail until his next court hearing, a Hillsborough County judge ruled Thursday morning.
Howell Emanuel Donaldson III was arrested Tuesday at the Ybor City McDonald's restaurant where he worked on four counts of first-degree murder, police said.
"The State Attorney's Office has filed a motion asking that you be held without bond until we have a hearing to determine whether or not you should be held without bond," Judge Margaret Taylor told Donaldson during Thursday's hearing.
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Donaldson's next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Four people were fatally shot between Oct. 9 and Nov. 14 within close proximity of one another. Detectives haven't determined why the neighborhood was targeted.
Investigators said Donaldson on Tuesday handed a coworker a McDonald's bag containing a loaded .40-caliber Glock pistol and the coworker approached a police officer who was at the restaurant.
Donaldson told the coworker he intended to leave the state and left the restaurant, but he returned and was detained by the police officer, police said.
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Police said Donaldson gave officers permission to search his vehicle and his cellphone and to examine his gun, which he legally purchased Oct. 3.
Donaldson admitted to owning the gun, but he hasn't admitted to the shootings, detectives said.
Investigators said they found bloody clothes in his vehicle and will test them for DNA evidence.
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