Police Name Suspect in Slayings of Five Students in Florida
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A task force investigating last August’s mutilation slayings of five college students named a prime suspect on Friday, Danny Harold Rolling, who is in jail in an unrelated grocery store robbery.
John Joyce, a spokesman for the investigators, made the announcement at a news conference here before a court in Ocala, Fla., decided Rolling was competent to plead guilty to the holdup.
“The naming of Rolling as the prime suspect does not necessarily exclude other individuals who may still be under investigation. The homicide investigation is continuing,” Joyce said.
Rolling, 37, has also been identified as a suspect in the slayings of three people in his hometown of Shreveport, La.
Rolling has not been charged in the Gainesville slayings, and no timetable has been set for presenting the case to a grand jury, Joyce said.
Sources have said for months that Rolling was a suspect in the killings of the five University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College students.
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