Indiantown man convicted of murdering a woman in 2020 as her six children watched
STUART — An Indiantown man who in 2020 killed Maribel Morales-Rosado in front of her children was ordered Thursday to serve two life prison terms after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and other charges, according to trial records and a state prosecutor.
Trial begins for Williams III accused of killing ex-girlfriend in front of her children
Opening statements and witness testimony begin in the murder trial of Donald “Hondo” Williams III, 30, in Circuit Judge Sherwood Bauer’s courtroom, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, at the Martin County Courthouse in Stuart. Williams III is accused of fatally shooting his estranged girlfriend, Maribel Morales-Rosado, at her home in Indiantown on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, as her six children watched. Williams III is charged with first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, one count of burglary to a dwelling with an assault or battery while armed, discharge of a firearm causing death, and one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.
Jacob Brighton, who was 16 when he killed his parents in 2007, to remain in prison for life
FORT PIERCE — After describing Jacob Brighton’s 2007 crimes of fatally shooting his parents as committed “in cold blood,” a judge Monday ordered he should keep serving two life prison terms without the possibility of parole.