Douglas Matthews is a black man who has
been on death row in the state of Florida since 08/12/10.
Crime
He was convicted of Premeditated 1st
Degree Murder, 2 counts of Cocaine Possession, Homicide-Manslaughter
and one count of Armed Burglary, committed on 08/17/07. On the evening of February 20, 2008, Daytona Beach Police Department
officers responded to a call that a man was outside an apartment
building asking for help. When they arrived on the scene, officers
discovered Kirk Zoeller sitting in front of an open apartment door,
nonresponsive, covered in blood, and gasping for air with blood pulsing
from his neck. The officers entered the apartment and found blood
covering the floor and walls. While clearing the apartment, officers
discovered Donna Trujillo's body on the bed in the bedroom. The officer
who found Trujillo testified that she could not see her body from the
main room of the apartment, which consisted of an open kitchen and
living room, and that she stood in the bedroom doorway for 10 to 15
seconds before noticing the body because most of it was covered with a
pillow. Zoeller and Trujillo were pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the medical examiner, both victims had been stabbed to
death.
Address
You can write to this inmate
at:
Douglas Matthews V29877
PO Box 23608Tampa, FL 33623
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