{"id":19144,"date":"2013-01-17T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19144"},"modified":"2013-01-17T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:11:44","slug":"suspect-in-double-murder-being-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19144","title":{"rendered":"Suspect In Double Murder Being Sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY \u2013 Last week when Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s deputies found 24-year-old<strong> Destynee Nekole Burkes <\/strong>dead inside a hotel room at the La Quinta Inn. Detectives immediately suspected her on-again, off-again boyfriend, <strong>Jamaal Jenkins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday after police found 30-year-old <strong>Tieyannie Dewitte Hollis<\/strong> with a gunshot wound to the head, they again looked at<strong> Jenkins <\/strong>as the suspect, because he had reportedly been fighting with <strong>Jenkins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jenkins<\/strong>, 25, who is known to stay in hotels around the St. Petersburg area, is being sought by two law enforcement agencies on two counts of murder. Detectives are not clear on how long<strong> Jenkins<\/strong> and <strong>Burkes<\/strong> allegedly dated. <strong>Burkes<\/strong>, a home health aide, was pursuing a nursing degree, and was allegedly dating both <strong>Hollis<\/strong> and<strong> Jenkins<\/strong>, detectives said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators report that in December, <strong>Burkes<\/strong> and <strong>Jenkins<\/strong> spent the night in a hotel together. However, a day after Christmas, <strong>Burkes<\/strong> was at an intersection in Pinellas Park when another vehicle rammed the back of her car, causing it to spin out, according to a police report. Witnesses identified the driver that rammed her car as<strong> Jenkins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On January 6th, detectives said <strong>Jenkins<\/strong> and <strong>Hollis<\/strong> were arguing at a park. Early the next morning, <strong>Burkes<\/strong> checked into room #120 at the La Quinta Motel. <strong>Jenkins <\/strong>allegedly joined her, but left 30 minutes later. He was seen leaving without a shirt and driving a silver 2012 Chrysler <strong>Burkes<\/strong> had rented.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve hours later, hotel staff members found <strong>Burkes<\/strong> dead inside the room. She had been shot in the head. Officials don\u2019t know if <strong>Jenkins<\/strong> is still driving the car <strong>Burkes <\/strong>rented, and report that the license plate number is Florida K911WU. But he has stated he has no intention of going back to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows the whereabouts of <strong>Jenkins <\/strong>is asked to call the Sheriff\u2019s Office at (727) 582-6200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY \u2013 Last week when Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s deputies found 24-year-old Destynee Nekole Burkes dead inside a hotel room at the La Quinta Inn. Detectives immediately suspected her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Jamaal Jenkins. On Monday after police found 30-year-old Tieyannie Dewitte Hollis with a gunshot wound to the head, they again looked at Jenkins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}