'Case Closed': Mountain View police identify suspect in a 1990 cold case murder of aspiring broadcaster
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - The family of a 27-year-old man killed more than 30 years ago finally has a sense of closure, after Mountain View police identified a suspect in the decades-long cold case.
Police officials on Tuesday announced "case closed" in the 1990 homicide of Milpitas resident Darrel O’Donnell, who family members described as an aspiring broadcaster who had a wonderful sense of humor, loved life and had a "God-given gift of entertaining and talking to people."
On an early morning on October 20, 1990, police responded to reports of a fight that had broken out in the 400 block of Moffett Boulevard. That’s where they found O’Donnell on the ground of a parking lot, suffering from a stab wound. He later died at a hospital.