Dontae Rashawn Morris (born August 24, 1985)[1] is an American serial killer who shot and killed five people in Tampa between May and June 2010.

In case 2010-CF-10203A, the murder of Tampa Police officers David Curtis and Jeffrey Kocab, the jury had returned a unanimous verdict recommending death.

His aunt, Carolyn Riggins, worked at the Tampa Police Department and was released in July 2010, as the authorities discovered that she withheld important information that could have led to Morris being arrested earlier.

On June 29, 2010, Morris shot and killed police officers Jeffrey Kocab and David Curtis as they attempted to arrest him in East Tampa.

Morris was a passenger in his girlfriend's vehicle when they were stopped on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and 50th Street for missing license plates.

The murders of the two officers had been recorded by the dashcam of David Curtis' patrol car, which helped identify Dontae Morris as the perpetrator.

[11] His trial began in July 2012 for the murder of Rodney Jones, who was shot dead on May 31, 2010, after leaving the Cotton Club Bar on North Albany Avenue.

Since Morris had been filmed during the killings by the dashcam of Curtis' patrol car and his name and date of birth were picked up, the jury only needed four hours to convict him of double murder.

The authorities also announced that Morris was accused of the July 8, 2010, murder of Harold Wright, who was robbed next to his vehicle on 51st Street and killed with a headshot.

However, in January 2018, the Florida Supreme Court reversed the death penalty in the Derek Anderson case on the grounds that the jury's verdict was not unanimous.