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    Jamaal Jenkins Sentenced to Life for 2013 FL Slayings of Destynee Nekole Burkes and Tieyannie D. Hollis


    Destynee Nekole Burkes, 24, upper right, Jamaal Jenkins and bottom right, Tieyannie D. Hollis, 31




    St. Pete man faces death penalty in love triangle killings

    By Stephen Thompson
    The Tampa Bay Tribune

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a convicted felon accused of killing his sometime girlfriend and a man she dated while he was behind bars, according to court documents made available today.

    Jamaal Jenkins, 25, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail Thursday after he was extradited from Louisiana, where he was arrested in February. He faces two-counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Destynee Nekole Burkes, 24, of Gulfport, and Tieyannie D. Hollis, 31, of St. Petersburg.

    Documents unsealed today provide the most detailed chronicle yet of the sequence of events leading up to the two fatal shootings and of investigators’ efforts to find Jenkins.

    After he was released from jail in July, after serving six months on an obstruction charge, Jenkins apparently became upset that Burkes still sometimes saw Hollis, investigators have said.

    During their on-again, off-again relationship, Jenkins on Dec. 26 rammed the car Burkes was driving in Pinellas Park. Ten days later, on Jan. 5, Jenkins told an inmate in a telephone conversation that was recorded that if Burkes testified against him “there was no point in her life continuing,” court documents state. Inmates’ calls are routinely recorded.

    Two days later, Jenkins and Burkes, apparently back together, checked into the La Quinta Inn at 4999 34th St. N. shortly after 1 a.m. Less than 30 minutes later, Jenkins left Room 120 after shooting Burkes in the back of the head with a small-caliber handgun, according to court documents. She was found on the floor clutching a large purse.

    A video surveillance camera captured Jenkins leaving and getting into a 2012 Chrysler 200 Burkes had rented. Later, Jenkins’ mother, Yulonda Jenkins, identified the man as her son, court documents state. A confidential informant told detectives that word on the street was she was distressed over what he had done to his girlfriend.

    Jenkins also called both her son’s cell phone and Burkes’ within hours of her death; Jenkins had both phones with him as he drove the Chrysler to the Orlando area, the documents say. As a result, investigators were able to determine Jenkins’ path of escape.

    While in the Orlando area, Jenkins took the license plate off the Chrysler and put it on another 2012 Chrysler 200. Then he abandoned the one stolen from Burkes and returned to Pinellas County in a different vehicle, according to court documents.

    On Jan. 14, a week after Burkes’ death, Jenkins shot Hollis outside the Mariner’s Pointe apartments at 1175 Pinellas Point Drive, about 12:25 p.m., the documents say. Hollis was on his way to a friend’s apartment to pick up some photographs of Burkes and a rose from her funeral.

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    December 5, 2013

    Deputies: Murder suspect was trying to chip his way out of Pinellas jail

    By Laura C. Morel
    The Tampa Bay Times

    LARGO — Pinellas County Jail inmate Jamaal Jenkins apparently didn't plan to wait for his trial on two murder charges to decide his fate.

    Authorities say he was using a tool fashioned from items he found in the jail to try to bore through the concrete wall of his cell in an escape attempt. He even made a false wall surface to conceal his work, they said.

    During a check Nov. 28, detention deputies found "suspicious markings" on the wall and around a window of Jenkins' maximum-security cell, said Pinellas County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. David DiSano.

    A closer look revealed that Jenkins, 26, had been hiding the chips he'd made in the cell walls by using forms he got at the commissary and gray and white paint he peeled from jail walls, according to an arrest affidavit.

    Jenkins used pieces of air vents and a broken nail clipper to scrape at the walls.

    He didn't get far. The damage to the walls was minor, but he now faces charges of attempted escape and possession of contraband in the county jail.

    In January, deputies found Destynee Nekole Burkes, Jenkins' former girlfriend, in a Lealman hotel room with a fatal gunshot wound, the Sheriff's Office said. A week later, St. Petersburg police found Tieyannie Dewitte Hollis, 31, whom Burkes had been dating, shot to death at the Mariners Pointe Apartments.

    Authorities accused Jenkins of both slayings. He was arrested a month later in Louisiana and charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

    In May, he was extradited to Pinellas and booked into the jail, where he remained Thursday.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...s-jail/2155750

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    December 16, 2014

    Two life sentences plus 15 years for Pinellas murderer of two

    LARGO — Jamaal Jenkins fled all the way to Louisiana after killing his former girlfriend and murdering someone else she had dated. When officers brought the fugitive back to the Pinellas County Jail, he tried to escape.

    But now Jenkins, 27, will spend the rest of his life in prison.

    Jenkins stood in court on Tuesday and admitted he killed Destynee Nekole Burkes, 24, and Tieyannie Dewitte Hollis, 31, two years ago. Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Cynthia Newton gave him two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole — plus 15 years.

    In return, prosecutors dropped their plans to seek the death penalty.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/...of-two/2210441
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