A 64-year-old man was out celebrating his daughter’s engagement when his life began to unravel tragically. According to the deputies, Donald Storie witnessed a man assaulting a woman.
Storie said, “That’s not right,” after hearing the woman scream for help, according to court documents reviewed by Law & Crime.
However, upon his intervention, the assailant fatally attacked him. The 64-year-old died 23 days later of complications from his injuries. On Friday, deputies in Orange County, Florida, charged Jordan De’Ante Talley, 27, with manslaughter for allegedly killing Storie and domestic assault for allegedly attacking his girlfriend.
According to authorities, the incident occurred on March 31, about 1:40 a.m., at the junction of Robinson Street and Magnolia Avenue in downtown Orlando.
A surveillance film captured a guy, later identified as Talley, “battering” a woman, according to reports.
According to the footage, he pulled her by her hair, threw her to the ground, stopped her from going away, and then threw her to the ground again.
Storie’s daughter told detectives that when he heard the woman plead for help, he responded, “That’s not right.”
He approached the woman, who was under attack from a man known as Talley.
According to the description of CCTV footage found in court documents,
Officers used security footage to track down the vehicle that was carrying the male suspect and the woman. The woman who lived with Talley in Georgia registered the vehicle.
According to records, they spoke with the woman, who stated that she was in Orlando with her boyfriend, Talley, to celebrate her birthday on March 31. They had been dating for four to six months, lived together as a family, and her child addressed him as “Daddy.”
Investigators claimed she was trying to escape Talley when he showed her the still photographs, but he refused to let her go.
The woman admitted that she couldn’t remember anything because she was drinking that night, but she did recall that a man approached Jordan and said something to her. Talley and the man “squared off to each other, and Jordan punched him.”
In a post-Miranda interview, Talley allegedly stated that he spent the weekend in Orlando celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday.
Investigators said he identified himself in a still image captured during surveillance. He allegedly said that his partner was inebriated and that he had to help her walk to their car.
Detectives questioned him, claiming that the film showed him tossing her to the ground and preventing her from fleeing. He allegedly responded that she was telling him to leave her alone and that she was attempting to walk away, “but he did not want to lose track of her in a city they were unfamiliar with.”
“Jordan originally stated that when Donald approached, he raised his fists as if to fight,” said the authorities. “Jordan stood up to demonstrate this.” Detectives stated that the neighborhood’s video and surveillance cameras do not show this happening.
Jordan allegedly stated that he did not see the man raise his fists, but his girlfriend later told him that she did.
“Jordan admitted to punching Donald and putting him to sleep, then walking off to find their car,” according to investigators. “Jordan stated he was not in fear for his life or safety, even stating he is not afraid of anything.”
Storie, who died on April 23, would have been 65 on May 5.