Punta Gorda Isles man faces charges after hurling racial slurs, spitting on woman


A Punta Gorda Isles man is facing charges after two women said he shouted racial slurs at them and spit in one’s face.

The encounter happened when the women were picking mangoes. They said Donald Mueller stopped his car, yelled a slew of obscenities, then let his spit fly.

“When he screamed at me ‘Black lives don’t matter,’ I was beyond myself,” said Leiya R., of Volusia County.

“And then physically spit in my face.”

Leiya said that while visiting her hometown and cousin Katrina in Punta Gorda Isles on Tuesday, they picked some mangoes up off the ground of a yard. The homeowner where the mango tree is planted gave the two women permission (???), but when Mueller, a neighbor, saw the pair, he thought they took the fruit from his tree two blocks away and got angry.
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