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Florida inmate arrested in San Francisco cold-case murders

San Francisco police have arrested a 38-year-old man in two cold case murders.

The cases are from 1999 and 2000.


The first killing happened on Dec. 9, 1999 at around 7 p.m. in an apartment building on the 400 block of Bush Street. A former University of Nevada, Las Vegas swimmer died after being stabbed in the apartment.

The victim was 25-year-old Kameron Sengthavy.

On Jun. 1, 2000 at around 7 a.m., officers responded to a gas station on Washington and Van Ness streets. There, officers found a gas station attendant, 60-year-old Thomas Lee, shot dead.

A break in the case came in early 2018. After an investigation, police arrested 38-year-old Donovan Ray Lacy for the San Francisco murders.

Lacy was serving prison time in Florida for several bank robberies there. Police say Lacy had lived in the Bay Area and was brought back to Marin County to stand trial for several bank robberies that happened in 2012 and 2013.

In Jan. 2014, Lacy was convicted of bank robbery in Marin County and sentenced to 105 years in prison. After sentencing, he was transported back to Florida.

Lacy is expected to be extradited to San Francisco for the murder charges. After the murder trials, he is expected to go back to Florida to finish out his nine-year prison sentence for bank robbery, police said.

He would then be taken back to Marin County to finish his 105-year sentence for the 2012 and 2013 bank robberies.

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