Miami: Police arrested a suspected serial killer on Tuesday who faces charges of murdering four people over a period of several weeks in the US city of Tampa, Florida.
The murders took place between October 9 and November 14 in a seven-block area of Tampa's working-class Seminole Heights neighborhood, prompting the offer of a $100,000 reward for information to help solve the case.
The victims, whose ages ranged from 20 to 60 years old, were alone on the street at the time they were killed, and were shot dead for no apparent reason. None of them were robbed.
Howell Emmanuel Donaldson III, aged 24, was arrested after police received a tip that he had a firearm in a bag at a McDonald's fast food restaurant, Tampa police said in a statement.
"After several hours, (police) had enough information to charge Donaldson with all four of the homicides that have occurred in the Seminole Heights area," the department said.
The statement did not mention whether or not the tipster would receive the $100,000 reward, which police previously said came from law enforcement organizations and private donations.
Police Chief Brian Dugan told a news conference on Tuesday that Donaldson would be charged with four counts of first-degree murder, which can carry the death penalty in Florida.
"Fifty-one days ago, I said this was a struggle between good and evil," Mayor Bob Buckhorn told the same news conference.
"Well tonight, goodness has won. Tonight, in the battle between darkness and light, light has won," he said.
