Ronnie O’Neal III a male in Florida has killed his wife and 11-year-old daughter while leaving his nine-year-old son in a critical state. The suspect was heard shouting “Allah Akbar” whilst going on a violent rampage police reported on Tuesday.
Ronnie O’Neal III, 29, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and arson.
Officers of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from a woman on Sunday, pleading for help because she had been shot.
O’Neal was heard in the background shouting “Allah Akbar!” while the woman was talking to dispatchers.
O’Neal made a 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 the wife lying dead in the front yard of a neighbour’s house. O’Neal came out of the garage door and walked toward the deputies as police tried to force themselves into the house.
Policemen used 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.