A Florida man was heard shouting “Allah Akbar” while going on a violent rampage that left his 11-year-old daughter and the mother of his children dead and his nine-year-old son seriously wounded, police said Tuesday.
Ronnie O’Neal III, 29, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and arson.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said officers received a 911 call from a woman on Sunday, pleading for help because she had been shot.
Police said O’Neal was overheard shouting “Allah Akbar!” while the woman was talking to dispatchers.
O’Neal made the second call to 911 dispatch minutes after the first call came in, police said.
“I’ve just been attacked by some white demons,” he allegedly told operators. “Her name is Ke-Ke and she tried to kill me and I just killed her.”
Neighbours told Hillsborough County detectives they either saw or heard O’Neal murder Kenyatta Barron, 33, the mother of their children.
Two neighbours said they heard the gunshot.
“All of a sudden, I heard a loud bang. I mean, it was so loud it scared me,” Carol Pietraniello, who lives in the house behind Barron’s, said
David Huber, who lives next to Barron, said the shots “sounded like a crash.”
When policemen arrived on the scene, they found Barron lying in the front yard of a neighbour’s house. O’Neal walked out of the garage door toward deputies as police tried to force themselves into the house.
Authorities said policemen deployed their Tasers to take down O’Neal and as he was being placed into the back of a police cruiser, he was shouting “Allah Akbar.”
O’Neal’s nine-year-old son walked out of the home, suffering from burns and multiple stab wounds, police said. He was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition.
O’Neal’s daughter was found dead inside the home, with multiple stab wounds, police said.
Officials said the incident appeared to be “domestic related.”
O’Neal made his first court appearance on Tuesday. He was being held at the Hillsborough County Jail.
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