Whitey Ford
12-19-2019, 02:37 AM
Florida Air Force vet gets life in prison for brutal attack on roommate who spurned him
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Nearly four years after she was almost beaten to death by a roommate she found on Craigslist, Danielle Cabo Jones appeared in a Miami courtroom wearing makeup to hide the remaining scars on her face.
The damage, however, runs deeper. The brutal attack severely damaged her brain, leaving her with sustained memory loss.
"I wanted to go to school for criminal justice and psychiatry and now, I have my 11-year-old brother help me with my math, which was my best subject in school," Jones told a judge on Monday. "I also used to be able to sing very well. I can't anymore. I used to be able to dance very well and I can't anymore."
"I'm still hopeful that every day I'll get slowly better but I feel my life has been destroyed."
For destroying that life, her attacker Byron Mitchell, 39, was sentenced Monday to life in prison. In June, a jury convicted him of attempted murder and false imprisonment for the Feb. 14, 2016, attack that left Jones in a coma for nearly one month.
The state portrayed Mitchell in a much more sinister light.
Miami Detective Anthony Reyes, the lead investigator on the case, told the judge that Mitchell was a serial stalker of women.
Mitchell answered by rambling for more than six minutes, insisting that women have misinterpreted his approaches. "I'm not interested in being hostile, or being negative, or making people feel bad," Mitchell said. "I'm not interested in putting someone in a casket."
https://taskandpurpose.com/florida-air-force-vet-gets-life-in-prison-for-brutal-attack-on-roommate-who-spurned-him
https://i.imgur.com/VFJx4tF.jpg
Nearly four years after she was almost beaten to death by a roommate she found on Craigslist, Danielle Cabo Jones appeared in a Miami courtroom wearing makeup to hide the remaining scars on her face.
The damage, however, runs deeper. The brutal attack severely damaged her brain, leaving her with sustained memory loss.
"I wanted to go to school for criminal justice and psychiatry and now, I have my 11-year-old brother help me with my math, which was my best subject in school," Jones told a judge on Monday. "I also used to be able to sing very well. I can't anymore. I used to be able to dance very well and I can't anymore."
"I'm still hopeful that every day I'll get slowly better but I feel my life has been destroyed."
For destroying that life, her attacker Byron Mitchell, 39, was sentenced Monday to life in prison. In June, a jury convicted him of attempted murder and false imprisonment for the Feb. 14, 2016, attack that left Jones in a coma for nearly one month.
The state portrayed Mitchell in a much more sinister light.
Miami Detective Anthony Reyes, the lead investigator on the case, told the judge that Mitchell was a serial stalker of women.
Mitchell answered by rambling for more than six minutes, insisting that women have misinterpreted his approaches. "I'm not interested in being hostile, or being negative, or making people feel bad," Mitchell said. "I'm not interested in putting someone in a casket."
https://taskandpurpose.com/florida-air-force-vet-gets-life-in-prison-for-brutal-attack-on-roommate-who-spurned-him