On April 28, 2000, 20-year-old inmate Michael Dwayne Wallace was mopping the hallway of a Mountain View work furlough facility when he was killed by a bullet shot through the window. Yesterday, police finally arrested a suspect.
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.
Written by Megan V. Winslow
After more than 30 years of uncertainty, the family of a murdered Milpitas man now has closure about his death th¬anks to a Mountain View Police Department detective who refused to give up on the long-cold case.
A MVPD press release published Tuesday (Feb. 9) credits Sgt. Dave Fisher with identifying Darryl O’Donnell’s killer: John Snowgrass, a Sunnyvale man who died in 2006. O’Donnell
“You can’t stop,” Fisher said. “It always feels like there is one more chance, one more opportunity, to try and solve a case.”
The press release retraces the murder and MVPD detectives’ efforts to solve the case.